The Senate’s rules referee is weighing whether several provisions—including a novel retaliatory tax—can remain in the GOP tax-and-spending bill if Republicans want to use an expedited process to pass it in the Senate, according to a source familiar with the deliberations.
Democrats asked the Senate parliamentarian to review whether a low-income housing tax credit provision and adoption credit-related tribal proposal are outside the scope of the instructions the Senate wrote as a framework for the bill. Republicans are using the fast-track process known as reconciliation to speed the bill through Congress without the need for votes from ...