Republicans in Congress are unconcerned with the possibility of adding to a growing deficit through their attempt to make permanent the tax cuts passed in the GOP tax bill last winter, some of which will sunset after 2025.

While the tax bill dealt permanently with corporate side of the tax code for the most part, many of the individual provisions of the bill were set to expire after a decade in an effort to comply with the procedural rules of the reconciliation process, which Republicans used to pass the bill without relying on support from Democrats.

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