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  1. early and often
    House Republicans Love Tax Cuts More Than Deficit ReductionIf they win a trifecta, we’ll likely see a clash between Republicans eager to reduce revenues and their Wall Street friends fretting about debt.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. the national interest
    We’ll Never Stop Trying to Cut Taxes for the Rich, Republicans WarnYou can’t kill supply-side economics. You can only slow it down.
    By Jonathan Chait
  3. the national interest
    Trump’s Plan to Solve Coronavirus Crisis Is to Give Rich People Another Tax CutThe Republicans’ solution for everything turns out to solve pandemics, too.
    By Jonathan Chait
  4. george h.w. bush
    The Bush Family’s Struggle to Keep Up With the Conservative MovementGeorge H.W. Bush and his sons George W. and Jeb tried to stay in step with the ever-rightward drift of the conservative movement. They failed.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. 2018 midterms
    Kris Kobach Lashes Himself to Kansas’s Unpopular Former Governor Sam BrownbackIn the final gubernatorial debate, the controversial nativist and vote-suppressor tied himself to the former governor’s failed fiscal policies.
    By Ed Kilgore
  6. 2018 midterms
    Former GOP Governor of Kansas Endorses Kobach’s Democratic OpponentModerate Republicans like Bill Graves could hold the balance of power in Kansas in November.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. gop donors
    The GOP Has No New Ideas Because Elderly Billionaires Own Its BrainRepublicans haven’t adapted their agenda to 21st century problems because their plutocratic paymasters don’t have any of those.
    By Eric Levitz
  8. Trump’s Idea of Paying Down National Debt With Tariffs Is a Bad JokeAs always, Trump’s fiscal math makes no sense.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. White House: A Wide Variety of People Want an Illegal Capital-Gains Tax CutTrump may unilaterally give the wealthy a $100 billion capital gains tax cut — because that idea “has a lot of support from various people.”
    By Eric Levitz
  10. Trump Adds ‘Cutting Children’s Health Care’ to GOP’s 2018 PlatformDemocrats say Republicans will pay for their tax cuts by taking health care from working people. Trump is about to affirm this campaign message.
    By Eric Levitz
  11. Paul Ryan Allegedly Ousted House Chaplain for Disrespecting His Tax CutsReverend Patrick Conroy doesn’t know why he was asked to resign, but Ryan complained about his prayer for a tax law that’s fair to the poor.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  12. The Third Major Red-State Teachers Strike of 2018 Will Start Next WeekArizona educators voted overwhelming to strike after rejecting a pay-raise plan from that state’s governor.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. The Trump Tax Cuts Are Still Unpopular. That’s a Crisis for Conservatives.If the GOP can’t get Americans to enjoy the candy of its fiscal agenda, how will they ever get them to eat the vegetables?
    By Eric Levitz
  14. Oklahoma Teachers Win a Partial VictoryNow teachers have forced GOP politicians into raising pay in a second state. But the fight continues in other states, spilling over into elections.
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. Red-State Teacher Unrest Just Keeps SpreadingThe wave of protests and strikes isn’t just about pay, but about GOP tax-cut-driven starvation of education spending.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. GOP to Push for More Tax Cuts — and a Balanced Budget AmendmentSources say Republicans will follow this act with legislation allowing all Americans to have their cake, and eat it as well.
    By Eric Levitz
  17. the national interest
    Trump Economist Wants to Give the Rich Another Tax Cut, Without Vote in CongressTrump will never go along with this once he remembers that Republicans hate executive orders, though.
    By Jonathan Chait
  18. CPAC Audience Lets Trump Know It Cares More About Guns Than Tax CutsIn a strange but revealing direct poll of his adoring audience, Trump finds confirmation that the culture war matters most.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. Trump Team Says President Was Joking When He Called Democrats TreasonousCan’t you humorless liberals lighten up and laugh about being enemies of the state?
    By Benjamin Hart
  20. Paul Ryan Deletes Tweet Connecting Woman’s Tiny Raise to Tax CutThis was probably for the best.
    By Benjamin Hart
  21. Trump Tells Mar-a-Lago Crowd ‘You All Just Got a Lot Richer’ After Tax BillFor once, the president is honest about something.
    By Benjamin Hart
  22. Trump Hurries to Sign Tax Bill Because the TV Told Him ToThe GOP’s massive giveaway for the wealthy is officially law.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  23. DI Politics Chat: The GOP Got Their Tax Cuts. Now What?4 Daily Intel staffers chat about the tax bill, whether it will help the Democrats take back power, and what pieces of it they should keep if they do.
    By Jonathan Chait, Ed Kilgore, and Eric Levitz
  24. national circus
    Frank Rich: How Democrats Can Win the Spin War Over the Trump Tax CutsSo far, Nancy Pelosi and Tom Steyer are doing it wrong.
    By Frank Rich
  25. Paul Ryan Tweets Out Highlight Reel of Him Lying About Taxes for 20 YearsAh, memories.
    By Benjamin Hart
  26. McCain to Miss Pivotal Senate Tax Vote After Chemotherapy ComplicationsHe’s going home to Arizona after several days in the hospital.
    By Benjamin Hart
  27. Susan Collins Says She’s Not a Definitive ‘Yes’ on TaxesHer concerns about the bill are unlikely to be allayed, but she might vote for it anyway.
    By Benjamin Hart
  28. natural disasters
    California Governor on Wildfires: ‘This Is the New Normal’And, as if climate change wasn’t a big enough problem, the GOP tax cuts also pose a threat to disaster victims.
    By Chas Danner
  29. Grassley: Non-Wealthy People Would Waste Tax Cuts on ‘Booze or Women or Movies’It’s an implicit part of conservative economic theory that investors are the only people who matter. But most GOP pols don’t say it out loud.
    By Ed Kilgore
  30. Senate Passes Huge Tax Bill That Rewards the RichChockful of provisions that the one percent will love.
    By Benjamin Hart
  31. The GOP Keeps Admitting Its Economic Theory Is Incompatible With DemocracyRepublicans say that their tax cuts will only work if businesses can be certain that they will never be repealed.
    By Eric Levitz
  32. How Much Power Are Republicans Willing to Sacrifice for Their Precious Tax Bill?At this point Republicans are risking their political prospects in 2018, and beyond, for an unpopular bill.
    By Ed Kilgore
  33. If the GOP Clears These Hurdles, Trump’s Tax Cuts Pass This WeekRepublicans are tantalizingly close to fulfilling a core goal, and they’re not about to let child tax credits or leaving millions uninsured stop them.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  34. GOP Will Give Christian Right an Easy Victory in Exchange for Tax-Bill LobbyingThe repeal of a ban on politicking from the pulpit Trump promised the Christian right isn’t in the Senate tax bill. It will be added for a price.
    By Ed Kilgore
  35. The GOP Wants to Pass Trump’s Tax Cuts This Week. Here’s What They Need to Do.Republicans see this as do-or-die time for their tax overhaul — and they’re scrambling to secure about seven more Senate votes.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  36. McCain Recounts His Obamacare Repeal Death Blow in New InterviewWill he follow the same playbook on the Republican tax plan?
    By Benjamin Hart
  37. Report: Mnuchin Not Lying Well Enough About Taxes for Paul Ryan’s LikingThe Treasury secretary has fallen out of favor in congressional circles.
    By Benjamin Hart
  38. Murkowski, Who Nixed Obamacare Repeal, Says She Supports Ending the MandateThe Alaska senator said she’s still considering the larger tax-cut plan — welcome news for Republicans.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  39. Trump All But Dares Jeff Flake to Vote No on Tax BillClassic strategy.
    By Benjamin Hart
  40. Mulvaney’s Bold Promise: Middle Class Won’t See Tax IncreaseYou sure about that?
    By Benjamin Hart
  41. Oklahoma Tried the GOP’s Tax Agenda. Now, It’s Electing Democrats.As Republican tax cuts decimate the Sooner State, Democrats keep winning special elections in its deep-red districts.
    By Eric Levitz
  42. the national interest
    The GOP Has Done the Impossible: Make Tax Cuts UnpopularWhat they designed as an act of sadism turns out to be an act of masochism.
    By Jonathan Chait
  43. Tuesday’s Crushing Defeat Convinces Republicans They’re on the Right TrackIt’s one thing to stay the course despite electoral setbacks. It’s more dangerous to pretend electoral setbacks are actually mandates.
    By Ed Kilgore
  44. News of the Weird: Ted Cruz Stands Up for Coastal Elites in Tax Bill TalksHe took aim at a key provision in the GOP’s tax bill which would mostly affect well-to-do blue-staters.
    By Ed Kilgore
  45. Trump Wants Republicans to Repeal the Obamacare Mandate in Their Tax BillRepealing the individual mandate would generate a nice chunk of change to offset tax cuts. But it would affect health coverage and premiums, too.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. House GOP Uses Steph Curry to Sell Its Tax CutWhen Republicans needed an example of a rich guy who doesn’t need a tax cut, they thought of Curry.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  47. The GOP Tax Plan Takes From Orphans, Gives to Trust-Fund KidsRight-wing populism is one hell of a drug.
    By Eric Levitz
  48. Americans Don’t Like Trump’s Favorite Tax IdeaA lower corporate rate is the crown jewel of the GOP’s tax plan.
    By Ed Kilgore
  49. GOP in a Sweaty Panic on the Eve of the Tax-Bill UnveilingHouse Republicans have to find $5.5 trillion in spending cuts. By tomorrow.
    By Ed Kilgore
  50. New Koch Ads Accuse Democrat of Opposing Unpopular Tax CutsThe libertarian billionaires will spend $1.6 million informing Wisconsin that Tammy Baldwin opposes tax cuts that few Americans support.
    By Eric Levitz
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