Key Lawmakers Question Another Partisan Big Tax Bill: BGOV Tax

Tax Wishlist in Budget Bill Face Hurdles

Republicans’ leftover tax items on their to-do lists are running into challenging fiscal and political realities before the midterms.

Fiscal hawks on the Republican Study Committee rolled out a proposal for another partisan tax-and-spending cuts package last week, hoping to convince skeptical chief tax writers like House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) to tackle it before November.

“It’d be silly” not to pass another budget reconciliation package while Republicans retain control of the legislative process, said Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas), a ...