Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan will face stiff opposition from Republicans if it involves raising taxes by undoing portions of the Trump administration’s landmark 2017 tax reforms. “The point of this is, this tax bill of 2017—undone—would create an extensive loss of jobs in our country and do exactly the wrong thing and move us in the wrong direction,” McConnell said at a press conference Tuesday. Biden’s infrastructure plan, which Republicans say stretches the definition of infrastructure to include things like social programs, includes a partial repeal of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a major achievement of the Trump administration and a legacy the GOP is keen to preserve. Investing in the nation’s infrastructure is a popular proposition with Americans, and while both Republicans and Democrats want to fix crumbling roads and bridges, the plan’s $2.3 trillion price …
Republicans Won’t Support Rollback of Trump Tax Cuts to Pay for Biden’s Infrastructure Plan: McConnell
April 14, 2021
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