Tag: Tax Reform

A combination of a lower rate for repatriated earnings abroad with immediate expensing of business investment in equipment and operations, and with lower overall rates for businesses large and small, would send a powerful and encouraging message to multinationals and to the small and medium-sized American businesses that are part of their supply chains. (iStock by Getty Images)

How tax reform can bring back US manufacturing jobs

David Melcher · May 23, 2017 4:01 am

President Trump may use Twitter to respond to former FBI Director James Comey's testimony in real time, according to some reports. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Trump calls to cut off tax breaks for illegal immigrants

Joseph Lawler · May 23, 2017 1:00 am

House Speaker Paul Ryan knows the healthcare bill's passage is just the first of a three-stage process: "House, Senate, then conference." He also understands widespread confusion and concern with the bill, calling it "such a personal issue ... such an important issue in people's lives." (Illustration by Piotr Lesniak for the Washington Examiner)

Paul Ryan’s plan to kill them with kindness all the way to 2018

Salena Zito · May 22, 2017 4:01 am

While business success is attractive to Republican voters and is considered a sign of organizational ability, overseeing tax reform takes other skills.

Shahira Knight: Washington insider pushing Trump’s tax plan

Joseph Lawler · May 22, 2017 4:01 am

About That Trump Bump …

Irwin M. Stelzer · May 20, 2017 10:15 am

President Trump's reported call to make healthcare reform efforts more generous could alienate some of the conservatives he would need to get a bill through the Senate after narrowly succeeding in the House. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Beltway Confidential

Is a bunker mentality getting in the way of Trump making America great again?

Bruce Yandle · May 19, 2017 3:37 pm

President Trump's budget request will reportedly seek to balance the federal government's budget in 10 years with a mix of significant spending cuts and more favorable assumptions about economic growth. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump budget to balance cuts with rosy growth assumptions

Joseph Lawler · May 19, 2017 3:15 pm

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said that big businesses would be excluded from President Trump's planned low special business tax rate. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Mnuchin may have made a big commitment on tax reform

Joseph Lawler · May 18, 2017 11:20 pm

Republicans are pushing for the permanent overhaul to tax code, rather than a temporary tax cut as the White House has suggested is a possibility. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House GOP begins reform effort as Pence promises ‘most consequential tax cut’

Joseph Lawler · May 18, 2017 6:29 pm

Top Trump economic officials made the rounds on Capitol Hill before the first House hearing on tax reform. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Cohn, Mnuchin to meet with GOP leaders in push for tax reform

Joseph Lawler · May 17, 2017 6:51 pm

President Trump's election has at least placed new attention on economically stressed families and discouraged workers. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

How Trump and Congress can help Rust Belt and low-income families through tax reform

April Ponnuru · May 17, 2017 2:58 pm

Kevin Brady, the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, told reporters Tuesday that he planned to continue advocating for border adjustment in negotiations with the White House and Senate. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

GOP’s controversial import tax plan gets a hearing

Joseph Lawler · May 16, 2017 8:58 pm