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D'oh! House screwed up its tax cut vote, has to vote again



D'oh! House screwed up its tax cut vote, has to vote again The tally will be the same. It will still pass. But this is embarrassing: House Republicans will need a do-over on Wednesday to pass their tax reform plan after Democrats discovered that several provisions in the bill GOP lawmakers had passed earlier Tuesday would violate Senate rules.
The embarrassing snag came just hours after jubilant Republican lawmakers and President Trump celebrated the flawed bill’s passage through the lower chamber. “The Senate parliamentarian determined two minor provisions do not have budgetary impacts and had to be removed from the bill,” a spokesperson for the House Ways and Means Committee told Business Insider. “The Senate will still vote tonight, and the House will vote tomorrow to send the final bill to the President’s desk.” GOP House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s office said the House would reconsider the bill Wednesday morning and send it to the president for his signature at a ceremony yet to be scheduled. Democrats said the Senate parliamentarian had found the troubling items that violated Senate rules, including one provision that would let families use tax-advantaged 529 accounts for home-schooling expenses. The problem was revealed by Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden.

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Oops! What this really demonstrates for the umpteenth time is how stupid the Senate's budget rules are. Still, the whole point of crafting the bill was to make it eligible for a reconciliation vote in the Senate so the Democrats couldn't kill it via a filibuster. Got to get those details right. So presumably the Senate will pass the amended bill at some point tonight and the House will pass the new version tomorrow morning. It won't matter in the end, but it seems like a big deal at this moment.


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