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US Senate Republicans change Trump tax-cut bill, setting conflict with House

Reuters · last updated

U.S. Senate Republicans on Monday unveiled proposed changes to President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill that would make some business-related tax breaks permanent while making more limited the deduction for state and local income taxes, angering some colleagues in the House of Representatives.

The different versions of the bill in the two narrowly Republican-controlled chambers of Congress could complicate party leaders’ goal of passing the bill, which is the centerpiece of Trump’s domestic agenda, before a self-imposed July 4 deadline.

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