Senate Republicans might soon sidestep the Senate parliamentarian on a controversial accounting tactic that could make or break President Donald Trump’s agenda.

GOP leadership has spent weeks discussing with Elizabeth MacDonough, a nonpartisan referee of Senate rules, whether Republicans can treat Trump’s expiring 2017 tax cuts as cost-free, a novel approach that Democrats have panned as “magic math.”

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