DEMS/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump intensified his efforts to sell Democrats on his tax reform plan on Wednesday [10-18-17] even as Senate Republicans edged closer to passing a budget measure that would push forward a tax bill without Democratic support.
Trump, whose plan would bestow up to $6 trillion in tax cuts on businesses and individuals over the next decade, talked with 18 members of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, including Republicans and Democrats.
The White House said both parties shared a willingness to work with the president on tax reform.
Five of six Democrats at the meeting are up for re-election in states that Trump won in the 2016 presidential election. The White House hopes they will be open to working with Trump because they face voters next year…
Still, Republicans moved closer on Wednesday to an agreement on a budget resolution that would allow them to move tax legislation through the 100-member Senate with a simple majority instead of requiring 60 votes.
The budget resolution would allow tax legislation to expand the deficit by up to $1.5 trillion over the next decade.”
-David Morgan, “Trump tries to sell tax reform to Democrats,” Reuters, Oct. 18, 2017 11:39am