WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan is telling the media and the public to “forget about” President Donald Trump’s latest Twitter fight and focus instead on cutting taxes.
Ryan is trying to keep attention concentrated on the party’s efforts to rewrite the tax code in a bid to boost incomes and U.S. competitiveness.
Asked about Trump’s Tuesday broadsides against Tennessee GOP Sen. Bob Corker, Ryan said “put this Twitter dispute aside.”
Instead, Ryan said “Let’s focus on helping people, improving people’s lives, and doing what we said we would do.”
Trump is traveling to Capitol Hill Tuesday to lunch with Republican senators, including Corker, who Trump said “couldn’t get elected dog catcher.”
Corker responded by accusing Trump of “debasing” the U.S. and said he engages in “constant non-truth-telling.”
Cutting taxes for the very, very, very rich.
Ryan for the past 9 months:
Or taking health insurance away from 30 million.
Yah, forget about the fact that we are on the verge of WWIII and that our President and government are corrupt as hell! Priorities, folks!!! C’mon!!
Ryan, McConnell, the entirety of the GOP and all media reports continue to refer to this orchestrated giveaway to the 1% as the biggest “tax reform” in 30 years and they are going to marshal it through Congress before the end of the year. Perhaps a little historical perspective is in order.
The last two major revisions to the IRC were the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 and the Tax Reform Act of 1986. The 1984 Act was introduced to Congress on Oct. 20, 1983 and enacted on July 18, 1984, a nine month process. The 1986 Act was introduced to Congress on Dec. 3, 1985 and enacted on Oct. 22, 1986, a ten month process. That does not include the time it took Congress to draft the initial bill.
Tax reform is a long, slow, complex, arduous project. Tax cut giveaways are much easier.