1. Tax Cuts: What Took So Long? - by Stephen Moore via CNN
The White House and congressional Republicans have released their tax plan that President Donald Trump boasts would be "the biggest tax cut since Reagan."
The only question is why has this taken so long? The new plan is not much different from the one that Trump campaigned on -- and that economist Larry Kudlow and I helped draft for then-candidate Trump. This tax cut should already be the law of the land. Read more here...
2. Four Republican Senators Who Could Make or Break Tax Reform - via Washington Examiner
A handful of Republican senators will have an outsized influence on the GOP's legislative push to enact tax reform.
President Trump and Republican leaders can afford to lose only two Republican votes in the Senate and still pass legislation overhauling the tax code. While they hope to peel off a few Democratic votes, they cannot count on a Democrat to provide the deciding vote. Read more here...
3. Massachusetts Bakery Fights FDA to Keep 'Love' on Ingredient Label - via Washington Examiner
A Massachusetts bakery has learned that love is truly a battlefield as it fights the federal government to keep "love" on its label.
The Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter to Nashoba Brook Bakery in Concord, Mass., for safety issues that include preparing materials in unsanitary conditions. But nestled in the lengthy warning is an odd problem with one of the ingredients in its granola: "love." Read more here...
4. Sen. Lisa Murkowski Gets a Gift from GOP Leadership After Blowing Up ObamaCare Repeal - via Washington Examiner
She looks and she sounds as sweet as your grandmother but Sen. Lisa Murkowski is a bare-knuckled legislative brawler. Twice in 2017, the Alaska Republican stared down Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. And she won, torpedoing two attempts at overhauling Obamacare.
Rather than go toe-to-toe again with Murkowski over tax reform, the current masters of the Senate have opted for a softer touch. They've decided to bribe her, more or less. Read more here...
Jason Pye
Vice President of Legislative Affairs, FreedomWorks
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