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Democrats open door to tax negotiations with divided GOP
https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-open-door-tax-negotiations-110000657.htmlDemocrats are opening the door to collaborating with Republicans on a tax bill as the GOP faces several obstacles on the road to extending President-elect Trump’s tax-cut law.
While it will be tough for Democrats to get anything they want in a GOP tax bill, the narrow Republican majority along with substantial divisions within the conference are making some Democrats hopeful about bipartisanship on tax.
“If this were a party that wanted to negotiate with the minority party, and I’m thinking that the margins are so narrow that under ordinary circumstances they would negotiate with us, there are things that we probably could negotiate about,” Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.), a Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, told The Hill on Thursday.
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) also recently said there could be certain tax issues where his caucus and the GOP could unite behind a measure.
“With respect to certain areas of tax reform … there’s some common ground potentially to be found,” Jeffries told reporters last week.
While it will be tough for Democrats to get anything they want in a GOP tax bill, the narrow Republican majority along with substantial divisions within the conference are making some Democrats hopeful about bipartisanship on tax.
“If this were a party that wanted to negotiate with the minority party, and I’m thinking that the margins are so narrow that under ordinary circumstances they would negotiate with us, there are things that we probably could negotiate about,” Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.), a Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, told The Hill on Thursday.
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) also recently said there could be certain tax issues where his caucus and the GOP could unite behind a measure.
“With respect to certain areas of tax reform … there’s some common ground potentially to be found,” Jeffries told reporters last week.
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