Conservatives aren’t exactly unified behind the new tax plan. But they’re not exactly gunning for it either.
From Dave Weigel:
I asked David Keating, the executive director of the Club for Growth, if this meant that Republicans who ended up supporting the deal could expect the Club to support primary challengers.
“No, I don’t see that happening,” said Keating. “We want to push them hard and get the best deal possible. But this is choice between having legislators do nothing, which would result in a tax increase, and voting for some temporary tax cuts that aren’t everything we’d like. We’re not discussing whether to increase the death tax from 0 to 35 percent. We’re discussing whether to let it go to 45 percent. So this is not something I see someone getting a challenge on.”
So they’re not bringing out the big guns. And, of course, plenty of their allies think it’s a pretty decent deal.
