Doug Sword

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

RT @TaxNotes: Senate Democrats are calling on Trump’s Treasury secretary to revoke the access he reportedly granted officials associated wi…

A fine read from @cady_stanton on GOP trashing of congressional scorekeepers getting an early start in advance of the Super Bowl of Tax https://t.co/RE0WQaHjmJ @TaxNotes #taxes #Taxmageddon

A late night Tuesday discussion among House members in the speaker's office was on "potentially two bills, but the preference is to have the tax bill first," said Rep. Beth Van Duyne at a Semafor event this morning. @TaxNotes #tax

Obama WH argued for current policy baseline for Bush tax cuts, Rs considered same in 2017 - will Mike Crapo convince his party to go where none have before on giant 2025 tax bill? @TaxNotes https://t.co/qunZgWWM8D

RT @cady_stanton: Leaving Ways and Means GOP lunch, Chairman Jason Smith says he has the support of House GOP taxwriters on his concerns ab…

RT @cady_stanton: NEWS from @doug_sword & me: House GOP appropriators waited anxiously for months to see if their Dem counterparts would ca…

It was no oversight that House GOP appropriators had no IRS clawbacks in fy 2025 spending bills. They had another plan: https://t.co/pPjkojrjZK @TaxNotes #IRS

Jason Smith reports record $5.97 million campaign cash haul, most ever for a Ways & Means chair, & closes in on record PAC contributions for a House incumbent. And there's still another 3 months left in the fundraising year. @TaxNotes #taxes https://t.co/L5K1TDhcpm

“Tax policy at this point in the political process is often all kind of like cake with no vegetables." - Christopher Armstrong of Holland & Knight, a veteran of prez campaigns, Ways & Means, & Senate Finance. Gotta be my favorite tax quote of the campaign. So far. @TaxNotes #tax

RT @TaxNotes: Newly sworn-in Sen. George S. Helmy (@ghelmy) will take the seat of his predecessor on the Senate's taxwriting committee, if…

Top Senate GOP taxwriter Mike Crapo wants administration to react to EU high court's decision penalizing Apple $14B: "I'm not going to say what they should be doing, but yeah, they should be doing something." @TaxNotes #taxes