Trump hails tax win: 'Look forward to signing a final bill before Christmas!'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY JESSE BYRNES - 12/02/17 03:15 AM EST

President Trump celebrated passage of the Senate GOP tax plan early Saturday morning, tweeting his desire to sign a final bill before Christmas.

Link to tweet

Senators voted 51-49 along party lines to pass the tax overhaul shortly before 2 a.m. on Saturday, handing Republicans a desperately needed legislative win as the final months of Trump's first year in office wind to an end.

Trump tweeted a "special thanks" to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) for shepherding the tax bill through the upper chamber.

Trump has had a fraught relationship with McConnell in the past, with tensions strained after two major GOP efforts to repeal ObamaCare failed in the Senate earlier this year.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. It's Jail for you, Sonny!

If you can steal an election, we the people can reverse this sometime.

[gademocrat7]

2. You betrayed our country.

This travesty will be remedied.

[Angry Dragon]

3. When is maybe a $850 tax cut for some a MASSIVE tax cut??

when at the other end Trump gets a $2-3 billion tax cut

[Bengus81]

9. Most in lower incomes--$20/25k per year might get $2-3.00 per week

Same BS as the Bush tax cuts. You get enough per year to buy a muffler OR the entire Lexus depending......

[Angry Dragon]

10. I know.......and no one has any idea what is truly in it

[jmowreader]

32. Including the people writing the damn thing

[KPN]

13. Lol. "Buy a muffler" I'll be using that one.Actually, considering my renter neighbors

enough to buy a muffler would be nice ... though they need 3 of them I think.

[mdbl]

4. Trump doesn't even know what's in the bills.

He's too willfully ignorant. He just wants SOMETHING to happen that he thinks makes him look accomplished. All this tax bill does is make him look like greedy liar, his counterparts in congress assholes, and his constituents who make under $100,000 a year really really dumb.

[INdemo]

5. Where in the hell or why in the hell arent Democratic Leaders screaming this morning

about the Senate vote to end our Democracy?.

Trumps wants his Dictatorship and perhaps this is the second step....

[SergeStorms]

31. Press the Meat....

and the other Sunday morning talk shows will be the prime viewing opportunities. There's really no Saturday morning pulpits on which to stand.

[djacq]

6. Welcome to the Haves and the Have Nots

Goodbye Middle Class... The ladder just got pulled from under you.

[marble falls]

7. I'm looking forward to the collapse of your regime soon after Christmas. Hope you like jail, Donnie.

actually I don't care if you or Bevis and Butthead like jail or not. Ask Jared's dad for some tips, like how to make coffee in your cell, or finding the toughest looking guy and marching up and punching him in the face, how to make a shiv out of a toothbrush ...... just joking because you'll be going to a Club Fed but a fellow like me can dream.

[Bengus81]

8. What really gives Donnie a woodie is the ACA mandate repeal........

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Couldn't kill off the ACA out in the public view so he does it from inside a MASSIVE Corporate give away. When the Senate and House debate the final bill BET YOUR ASS that DUMPING that ACA mandate will survive along with Trump and others golf course tax break.

[Angry Dragon]

11. What I want for christmas are painful and lingering deaths

[47of74]

21. Yeah I'm getting to that point myself

I'm just so disgusted and fed up with everyone and everything this morning.

[Thor_MN]

12. One needs a translator.

When Repugs say "working families" they mean families of people that make their money off of other people's work, i.e. investors. CEOs and their trust fund brats are all they care about. If you can't donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to them, you are not a person. They view gambling in the stock market as the only true work. What everyone else does is labor and that is connected to the damn unions that try to make it more expensive.

[forgotmylogin]

28. Trump doesnt know any poor people.

Or even average people. He doesn’t know what’s in the bill. He doesn’t read.

[KPN]

14. Fuck you Trump! Ain't happening.

We're going to blow this fucker up in conference. We're gonna shatter your fucking ego ... and then lock you up ... or introduce you to the guillotine.

[Liberalagogo]

15. This is the only thing I look forward to:

[Sunlei]

20. People in white coats as he leaves for 'medical reasons' excuse.

excuses, excuses....

[47of74]

22. I prefer this

[BlueIdaho]

16. This deal is a long way from done

Unless the house decides to roll over and back the Senate bill, these two bills need to be made into one. Depending on what sort of garbage the Senate added to their bill in the last seconds before passage, a compromise may be very hard to find.

[Sunlei]

17. what a joke- your 'tax cut' IS you don't pay your $200 fine for 'no insurance'. When you break a leg

hospital will take your stuff away, garnish your paycheck- to pay the $12,000 medical bill.

What a bunch of fools the little republicans are to 'believe' the big rich republicans have their best interests at heart.

[Bayard]

18. I can't stand to watch or read this shit for awhile

[Sunlei]

19. lol, love south park.Whats fun is knowing trumps nuts are in a vice & russia controls the WH agenda

sing Flynn, sing!

[Duppers]

24. I sure understand why. Video was...

...hilariously cathartic.

[Astraea]

23. you don't even know what's in the bill,

let alone what the final one will look like. I doubt you spent the night reading the 500+ pages.

Idiot.

[not fooled]

25. Welcome

to kochistan, where the billionaires write tax policy and extract money from the lower classes in order to shovel it upwards.

They have staged a coup and are running the country.

If stealing people's votes, gerrymandering, and otherwise "winning" elections with only the idiot vote stick, we are gonna have a genuine reich on our hands.

[rock]

26. America first!

Americans last.

[MFM008]

27. Looking forward

To you dropping dead on camera.
That's probably not happening either......

[saidsimplesimon]

29. The final vote is yet to come.

It's not over, yet, imo. Here is a suggestion, found on another Democratic blog, that suggests the fight has just begun. If you can't call during working hours (as if some in Congress are not on permanent recess). Resist

Search for your targeted lawmaker’s fax number in DC., keep that handy. Go to FaxZero, they do all the work. Give your number, the lawmaker’s number, your message, and boom, done. FaxZero will send 5 free faxes a day, 365 days a year.

[SergeStorms]

30. Asshole.

Your fucking "tax reform"is going to screw up this country for decades to come. Blow me, you turd!