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    Republicans Pledge Unified Fight To Protect 2017 Trump Tax Cuts

    The GOP is preparing to battle Democrats over plans to roll back portions of the tax cuts to pay for President Biden's infrastructure and stimulus proposal.
    by Kelsey Snell May 19, 2021 4 minutes

    Democrats on the powerful tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday joined the faltering attempts across Washington to finding bipartisan agreement on elements of President Biden's sweeping $2 trillion infrastructure and stimulus plan.

    But Democrats' plans to pay for that package — through a combination of tax increases for the richest Americans and a rise in the corporate taxes — has run squarely into Republican inflexibility on any rollback of the Trump tax cuts.

    Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., opened the hearing on leveraging the tax code for infrastructure investment without mentioning Democrats' plan to pay for those investments by rolling back major portions of the 2017 tax cuts.

    "Now is the time to move landmark legislation that scales to

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