Issues pile up as Ryan, GOP seek focus on taxes
All Paul Ryan wanted to do this fall was pass tax reform.
But a pair of social issues — immigration and gun reform — plus President Trump’s decision to punt key ObamaCare payments and the fate of the Iran nuclear deal to Congress are quickly complicating the Speaker’s tax-reform push and crowding what’s left in a 2017 calendar that has just 28 legislative days left.
At least in public, Ryan (R-Wis.) is not panicking yet. The former Ways and Means Committee chairman, who’s made overhauling the U.S. tax code his life’s work, tried to put a positive spin Monday on how soon Congress would send a tax-reform package to Trump’s desk.
“So by early November, we’ll get it out of the House. We’ll send it to the Senate,” Ryan said in a radio interview in his home state of Wisconsin. “The goal: get law in December so that we wake up with New Year’s and a new tax code in 2018.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/355750-issues-pile-up-as-ryan-gop-seek-focus-on-taxes
More trickle on economics
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The GOP are good at procrastinating, punting the ball down the field, and failing over and over.
