Marc Quick, former chief of workers to Vice President Pence, stated he’s involved that the Republican convention may “break apart” if it embraces the Senate’s two-track method to addressing taxes and the border.
In an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Quick stated there’s a threat that separating out border coverage from tax reform will make it troublesome to deliver collectively the Republicans who need extra spending cuts and others who’re hesitant to the touch Medicaid. Border coverage may deliver these Republican factions collectively, he stated.
“The more you can put into one bill is going to actually favor the majority in the House because they are going to need the border funding to attach the taxes to keep their conference together,” Quick stated on Tuesday.
“Otherwise, I think the conference is going to break apart,” he added.
Quick, as director of legislative affairs within the first Trump White Home, was instrumental in crafting the tax reform invoice in 2017. He famous within the interview that 12 Home Republicans voted towards that invoice and famous Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) can solely afford to lose one or two votes.
“Speaker Johnson has an incredibly difficult task here,” Quick stated, talking earlier than the Home accredited the price range decision that can lay the muse for enacting President Trump’s legislative agenda.
The laws — which gives a framework for Republican priorities on tax, border and power in “one big, beautiful bill” — was accredited in a 217-215 vote Tuesday night.
The laws now heads to the Senate, the place a sequence of landmines loom. The Home should reconcile with the Senate, which handed a price range decision final week that makes use of a distinct technique. Lawmakers should craft the Trump agenda invoice in keeping with the parameters within the laws, they usually should get the ultimate measure throughout the end line within the convention’s razor-thin majority.
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