GOP/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republicans are finally on the verge of enacting a signature legislative achievement.
It’s something that seemed up in the air less than 24 hours before the vote, unlikely just a few months ago and completely unfathomable despite bold claims to the contrary midway through President Donald Trump’s first year in office.
Yet the Republican-controlled US Senate, by a vote of 51-49, early Saturday morning passed a historic overhaul of the US tax code, clearing what has long been considered the largest and most byzantine hurdle in an effort that hasn’t been completed in more than 31 years…
Trump sounded a jubilant note Saturday morning, thanking Republican lawmakers on Twitter for their work on the bill.
The White House, too, lauded passage of the legislation Saturday morning, saying in a statement that the senators who voted for the bill ‘did a great service to their constituents” and adding that the legislation would lead to “sustainable economic prosperity and job creation.’ “
-Lauren Fox and Phil Mattingly, “How all but one Republican senator found a way to pass tax reform,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Dec. 2, 2017 12:29pm