Republicans struggle with Trump's demands for tax cuts

It was easy to overlook, but last weekend President Trump had a fundamental rewriting of the American tax law. In a social media post and again in comments to reporter, Mr. Trump suggested that the United States could hire that an income under 200,000 US dollars taxes and instead relies on income from his extensive tariffs.

“It will take a while for us to do this, but we will reduce taxes and it is possible that we will carry out a complete tax cut,” Mr. Trump told reporters on Sunday. “Because I think the tariffs will be enough to reduce the entire income tax.”

The idea was the idea for the Republicans on the Capitol Hill, which was already translated into the law in the translation of Mr. Trump's impulses for taxes.

Senator Mike Crapo, a Republican from Idaho who heads the Finance Committee, said he had not heard about the proposal from Mr. Trump or his employees. “So I just don't know what that refers to,” he said.

Likewise in the house, where the Republicans release their first stab in the tax bill in the coming days. “We didn't at all – it never appeared,” said representative Lloyd Smucker, a Republican from Pennsylvania and a member of the Ways and Means Committee that he received no income taxes for income of less than 200,000 US dollars.

Even if you say goodbye to Mr. Trump's latest term, the Republicans of the Congress are trying to include some of his previous tax proposals in legislation. This includes no taxation of tips, overtime or social security benefits, three by Mr. Trump's campaign that the White House continued to promote in its second term.