We have a new statement from senator franken. Lets start with msnbcs garrett haake. At the capitol. Hans nichols is at the white house. Garrett, lets start there on the hill. Whats the mood . Are lawmakers excited . This is a dance that theyve been to before with the health care vote. It sounds as if they are certainly more optimistic about the chances for passes this time around. Well, craig, this has turned into a pretty weird day on capitol hill. Weve gotten used to some weird days. Theres on one chamber, everything has been completely rocked on the senate side by these allegations against senator al franken. On the house side, the president was here, essentially pulling a pep rally in the basement of this building, trying to fire up republican lawmakers to get this tax bill across the finish line. Yeah, look, it does look like this thing will pass the house. The fight continues in the senate. But republicans here are feeling relieved. Theyre feeling good. They were taking selfies.
Have the votes to take a significant step on tax reform. President trump was just out here giving House Republicans a pep talk. A source of the room tells fox that the president said i love you, gordon vote. The president praised both Speaker Paul Ryan and chairman kevin brady, but the new york republicans are worried about the impact of scaling back that state and local Tax Deduction. I cannot allow the people of new york and the people of my district come become Collateral Damage in a federal tax reform bill. We want to kickstart our economy, create jobs, we want to see people take home more money because they spend it better than the government spends their money, but not on the back of our constituents. Earlier the house Speaker Paul Ryan responded to that criticism. We actually added back at 10,000 property Tax Deduction in addition to the tax cuts that are already in the bill that everybody gets. Weve run numbers on these districts and shown that taxpayers in those districts, in
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