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If anything, the election of Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama has spurred Republicans Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan to try to jam the tax cuts bill through even faster. They've struck a deal, details of which aren't yet apparent.
Details on the deal were not immediately available. On Tuesday, Republicans said they were close to agreement on a package that included a cut in the corporate tax rate to 20 percent, from a high of 35 percent today, and reducing the top income tax rate for individuals to 37 percent from 39.6 percent.
It is not clear if Republican senators will roundly endorse the deal, which would allow provisions that Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Marco Rubio of Florida had raised concerns about earlier this week. Ms. Collins has said she’s not in favor of a lower individual rate and Mr. Rubio has pushed for a more generous child tax credit. […]
The agreement was finalized on Wednesday morning, hours before the first and only scheduled public meeting of the congressional conference committee formed to work out the differences between the House- and Senate-passed versions of the bill.
There's your regular order, Sen. John McCain. The conference committee had one public meeting scheduled and they did all the work before that, which means that the deal was stuck in private. The deal was struck with no input from the Democrats on the conference committee.
Democrats continue to call for a halt to this rush, for the Senate to hold off until Jones is seated. The election is not going to be enough to stop McConnell or House Speaker Paul Ryan from this reckless course, but it might be enough for some vulnerable Republicans to get cold feet. That's who we target now, House and Senate.
Senate Republicans have done all they can to ram their scam of a corporate tax bill through without any sense of transparency or ethics. After Doug Jones’s epic upset, that must stop immediately. Call your House & Senate members at (202) 224-3121 TODAY. Tell them to take NO FURTHER ACTION on the tax bill before Doug Jones is seated.