{"id":2150,"date":"2017-12-02T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/02\/in-dead-of-night-republicans-pass-disastrous-tax-bill\/"},"modified":"2017-12-02T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T18:56:00","slug":"in-dead-of-night-republicans-pass-disastrous-tax-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/in-dead-of-night-republicans-pass-disastrous-tax-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"In Dead Of Night, Republicans Pass Disastrous Tax Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have missed what happened last night, and we don’t blame you, considering a vote didn’t happen until nearly 2 am, but it did not go well for American taxpayers. The Republican-passed tax bill would raise taxes on millions of middle-class families, leave millions more without health care and cause premiums to skyrocket. The process was a partisan disaster, but Republicans were determined to deliver a gift to their donors, and huge tax giveaways to corporations and the top 1%.<\/p>\n

Here’s what happened:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Republicans forced through a historically unpopular bill at nearly 2 am, mere hours after releasing it, and without any Democratic votes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

FiveThirtyEight<\/a>: “Poll after poll shows that more voters than not are opposed to their efforts. In fact, the GOP bill is one of the least popular tax plans <\/strong>since Ronald Reagan’s day.”<\/p>\n

CBS News<\/a>: “The Senate narrowly passed Republicans' tax reform legislation early Saturday morning with no Democratic support<\/strong>, following a marathon voting session overnight.”<\/p>\n

The Republican bill already drastically benefited the wealthy at the expense of middle-class families, but late additions made it even worse.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Washington Post<\/a>: “What began as an effort that would favor wealthy individuals and corporations became, in many ways, even more tilted in their favor<\/strong> as the legislation made its way through the Senate.”<\/p>\n

NBC News<\/a>: “Senators’ pet projects added at last-minute<\/strong> into tax bill.”<\/p>\n

The Republican tax bill was written by, and for special interests. The list of amendments to the bill even came directly from Washington lobbyists.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Hill<\/a>: “Analysis: More than 6,000 lobbyists <\/strong>have worked on taxes in 2017”<\/p>\n

Senator McCaskill<\/a>: “This is so bad. We have just gotten list of amendments to be included in bill NOT from our R colleagues, but from lobbyists downtown. None of us have seen this list, but lobbyists have it.<\/strong> Need I say more? Disgusting. And we probably will not even be given time to read them.”<\/p>\n

Every Republican senator voted against allowing more time to read the text of the bill before voting on it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bloomberg’s Sahil Kapur<\/a>: “Senate votes 48-52<\/strong> to reject Schumer’s motion to adjourn until Monday to give senators time to read the legislation.”<\/p>\n

Multiple nonpartisan analyses found that the Republican bill will add close to $1.5 trillion to the deficit, but Republicans forced the bill through without waiting to see the full impacts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

An hour after the vote<\/strong>, the Senate’s nonpartisan official scorekeeper, the Joint Committee on Taxation, released<\/a> their modified analysis showing that the Republican tax bill would add nearly $1.5 trillion<\/strong><\/a> to the deficit.<\/p>\n

The Hill<\/a>: “The Senate GOP tax plan will increase the deficit by more than $1.4 trillion<\/strong> over a decade, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The CBO score comes as senators are already voting<\/strong> on amendments to the legislation and are expected to pass the bill in the early morning hours of Saturday.”<\/p>\n

New York Times’ Jim Tankersley<\/a>: “McConnell: ‘I’m totally confident this is a revenue neutral bill. Actually a revenue producer.’ Republicans did not produce a single study that came close to backing that assertion up<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

And we still <\/em>can’t read what’s actually in the bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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You may have missed what happened last night, and we don’t blame you, considering a vote didn’t happen until nearly 2 am, but it did not go well for American taxpayers. The Republican-passed tax bill would raise taxes on millions of middle-class families, leave millions more without health care and cause premiums to skyrocket. 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