Democrats fail to overturn ruling that tax cuts in GOP megabill don't add to deficit

The Senate on Monday voted along party lines that making the expiring 2017 tax cuts permanent as part of President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" could be scored as deficit neutral, and therefore comply with the Byrd Rule, allowing the bill to pass with a simple-majority vote. Democrats failed to defeat the ruling by the Senate...

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