Doyle McManus: If you listen closely, you can hear Trump's tax plan shrinking
Tax cuts are the centerpiece of President Trump's economic agenda. That's how he'll deliver on his promise to create "millions" of new jobs and restore manufacturing in the heartland, he says.
But for Republicans in Congress, after their failure to repeal President Obama's healthcare law, tax reform is more than just another political battle. It's an existential one.
"If we don't get tax reform done, we're dead," Sen. Mike Lee, the refreshingly blunt senator from Utah, said last week. "We might as well flip up our tent and go home."
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