Freedom Caucus Crafting Tax Reform Plan- via Politico
The House Freedom Caucus wants a seat at the tax reform table, and members are crafting a bill so they don’t show up empty handed.
Mark Sanford, a caucus member from South Carolina, told POLITICO he is already identifying areas of disagreement with the House leaders' tax plan. The health care bill that passed Thursday proved better for conservatives, Sanford said, so they’re aiming to have greater influence on the tax reform process from the beginning.
“Rather than react, then stop something, and then go in fits and starts forward, we can constructively engage at the front end and say this is more of what we believe,” he said. “Let’s ... avoid the kind of dislocation that we saw in this particular [health care] bill about a month ago.”
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