All-nighter on tax bill just a start for House GOP

Ted Cruz moves to grow the welfare state - Washington Examiner

This week, the House Ways and Means Committee is “marking up” the tax provisions that will make up the House of Representatives’s version of the omnibus reconciliation bill, which President Donald Trump and Republican leaders want to become law this summer. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the House version of the looming reconciliation bill would increase deficits by $3.8 trillion over the next decade. This would be fiscally irres…

All-nighter on tax bill just a start for House GOP

WASHINGTON — Cheers broke out early Wednesday as Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee signed off on the GOP tax breaks bill after a grueling round-the-clock session that pushed President Donald Trump's package past overwhelming Democratic opposition.