House Republicans Take a Practice Run at Compromise
In a narrow vote on Thursday, GOP lawmakers agreed to pass the Senate’s higher-spending budget proposal to allow the party to skip ahead to tax reform.
Updated on October 26 at 11:41 a.m.
If congressional Republicans are going to enact their ambitious and complicated tax overhaul, they’re eventually going to have to agree to things many of them don’t particularly like in service of the larger goal. That may involve eliminating some loopholes but not others, making some people pay more so most others can pay less, or increasing a deficit they vowed to shrink.
In other words, they’ll have to make concessions—that necessary evil of deal-making which Republicans often rejected in eight years of opposing Barack Obama and during the trying first year of the Trump administration.
On Thursday, however, the House took an important practice run at
