The recent Syria fireworks have thrown diversionary smoke over Trump’s faltering domestic agenda.
But the clearing smoke reveals trouble for another key plank of Trump’s agenda – just like health care reform…
We refer of course to tax reform.
On the campaign trail Trump pledged he’d ‘cut the hell out of taxes.’
But the Associated Press reports that now Trump’s ‘going back to the drawing board in a search for Republican consensus behind legislation to overhaul the U. S. tax system.’
White House officials now concede it’s ‘unlikely’ that Trump will get it done by the August deadline Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin established.
The AP:
This post was published at Wall Street Examiner on April 11, 2017.
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