By David Jackson
November 28, 2017
With an eye on passing tax cuts by Christmas, President Trump will press his case hard to Republicans on Tuesday as he meets with congressional leaders on Capitol Hill and at the White House.
Trump’s push for tax cuts tops the agenda as Trump journeys to Capitol Hill to attend the Senate Republicans’ weekly policy luncheon. “I think the tax bill is doing very well, and I think the Republicans are going to be very proud of it,” Trump told reporters Monday at the White House.
With all of the Senate Democrats poised to oppose a Republican tax cut plan, Trump will need support from nearly all 52 members of the Senate GOP caucus if he wants to get anything passed.
Even if Senate Republicans do push through a tax plan, they will have to smooth out the differences between that plan and the one House Republicans passed earlier this month.
After lunch on Capitol Hill, Trump returns to the White House for a mid-afternoon meeting with Republican and Democratic leaders.
The meeting is expected to include Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. and the Senate’s Democratic leader Charles Schumer of New York. Both House leaders – Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis. and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. – are also expected to attend.
While taxes will be a topic at that meeting as well, Trump and the congressional leaders are also expected to discuss other pending end-of-year agenda items, include a new overall spending plan designed to avert a government shutdown that could start as early as Dec. 8.
Another item on the list: Immigration.
During a meeting in September, Trump appeared to make a deal with Democratic congressional leaders Schumer and Pelosi to preserve a program that blocked deportation of children who were brought into the country illegally by their parents.
Trump and other Republicans who had called for ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program are still negotiating over it, with GOP members seeking tighter immigration restrictions in other areas of the law.
“We hope that the Democrats are willing to make responsible immigration reform and we laid out what we want,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said.
In previewing a “big week” on a variety of policy fronts, Trump tweeted over the weekend that “Senate Republicans will hopefully come through for all of us. The Tax Cut Bill is getting better and better. The end result will be great for ALL!”
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