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RT @RichardRubinDC: Asked why Rs and Ds can't work together on a tax bill, Smith says, accurately: “I did that last Congress, and the Sen…

RT @Eleanor_Mueller: "I'm very skeptical," Jason Smith says at the Economic Club of the accuracy of JCT's cost estimates. "Unless I like…

RT @HowardMortman: It's 4:57am ET ... there's another vote during the House Ways and Means markup ... and they have to wake Rep. Blake Moor…

White House proposal to cut $2.5B in FY 26 would cut IRS budget to lowest level since 2002. https://t.co/UT6fEwKZif Reason given was to prevent IRS political targeting. IRS budget was increased during Trump 1.0 #IRS @TaxNotes

RT @TaxNotes: House Ways and Means Committee Republicans are keeping their promise to limit discussion of details about their mammoth tax p…

RT @cady_stanton: “I haven’t talked about anything to anyone,” said Ways and Means Committee member David Kustoff, R-Tenn. That includes hi…

RT @cady_stanton: New: The “vow of silence” that W&M members took to not discuss specifics with others about what is said during private me…

Ways & Means Chair @RepJasonSmith confirms by implication the new tax bill deadline: "What I will say is the markup will be one day between now and July 4," he said when asked about the markup schedule. @TaxNotes

House Budget Chair @RepArrington not only pans the budget resolution adopted by the Senate early this morning as "unserious and disappointing", but uses traditional scoring to put the cost at $5.8T, not the $2T Senate Rs say it is. @TaxNotes

Want to know how Senate Rs might deal with a parliamentarian problem? Check out this story from @cady_stanton & @KatieLobosco @TaxNotes https://t.co/jiznc1gdRr

RT @RichardRubinDC: Just added to this story…. I asked Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham what would happen if the House budget resolut…

RT @RichardRubinDC: So if and when the House manages to get through the messy process of getting this budget resolution through, the Senate…

RT @cady_stanton: NEWS from @doug_sword and I: Senate Finance Committee member Bill Cassidy filed an amendment to the budget resolution yes…

Looks like a Senate R is having current-policy second thoughts on a tax bill. @SenBillCassidy filed a vote-a-rama amendment to "strike references to current policy accounting" from the budget res. Details and reaction from @TaxNotes & @cady_stanton here: https://t.co/utUKMnmTWS

RT @TaxNotes: Splintered paths in the House and Senate on whether to tackle tax quickly or later in the year may begin to converge by the e…

"One gets the impression they decided 'Okay, we're going to do it,' and they're still trying to figure out what the details are," House Budget ranking member @RepBrendanBoyle, D-Pa., said of the majority's textless (so far) budget resolution markup Thursday. @TaxNotes #taxes

“We’ll see what happens with the parliamentarian on that one," @RepChipRoy says of plans to get a low current-policy score on giant tax bill in https://t.co/42rXVxLWJE @TaxNotes #taxes