Official Analysis Finds Republicans Are Completely Wrong About Their Tax Bill Paying for Itself
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is surrounded by reporters on Thursday as Republicans move to pass their tax bill. J. Scott Applewhite/AP On Thursday, Congress’ nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation found that the Senate tax bill will add $1 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years. Thursday’s report is the first official congressional…
Republican Critics of Tax Bill Vote to Send Bill to Senate Floor
President Donald Trump arrives on Capitol Hill on Tuesday with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to discuss the Senate tax bill. Tom Williams/AP On Tuesday, a Senate committee voted along party lines to send a $1.4 trillion tax cut to the Senate floor. Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), two of the tax bill’s…
The 3 Reasons Republicans Might Vote Down Trump’s Tax Bill
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell during a Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this month. Tom Williams/AP Despite plans to hold a vote by the end of the week, Senate Republicans are still trying to round up the necessary votes. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has only two votes to spare on taxes, and at least six of…
The CBO Just Released Its Analysis of the Senate Tax Bill
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Newscom via ZUMA Last night, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released its analysis of the Senate tax bill. The report concludes that the GOP’s tax bill is bad for the poor from the get-go and ends up eventually raising taxes on the middle class too. Per the Washington Post: By 2019, Americans earning less…
Republicans Are Sneaking Right-Wing Social Policies Into Their Corporate Tax Cut
Donald Trump with right-wing preacher Pat Robertson in Virginia during the 2016 campaign. Under the House tax bill, Robertson’s nonprofit could endorse political candidates for the first time since 1954.Steve Helber/AP Fetuses don’t file 1040s in April, but they still appear in both Republican tax bills. The reason is simple: giving corporations a massive tax cut…
Flashbacks, Nightmares, Panic Attacks—Las Vegas Survivors Describe the Emotional Toll
Darla Christensen and her son Royce at a candlelit vigil on October 3, 2017.Al Kamalizad/Mother Jones When the bullets started flying on that October evening, some hit Las Vegas’ Route 91 concert stage so close to Royce Christenson that shards of aluminum landed in his hair. He saw a man go down, and the man…