Trump, Senate and tax code
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The Senate Finance Committee’s language would take a sledgehammer to some parts of the renewable-friendly Inflation Reduction Act while sparing others.
WASHINGTON—Senate Republican leaders left members from both ends of the party unsatisfied with their version of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” touching off a fast round of new negotiations to hit their self-imposed deadline of putting the bill on his desk by July 4.
A plurality of voters oppose the sweeping tax-and-spending legislation, with mixed opinions on specific provisions, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll conducted earlier this month.
Top Senate Republicans are running into some resistance from several key senators about the details of President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” potentially complicating plans to deliver that package by their own July 4 deadline.
Louisiana state Sen. Blake Miguez, R-New Iberia, announced his candidacy Tuesday for U.S. Senate, with an opening salvo targeting the incumbent Bill Cassidy's 2021 vote to impeach President Donald Trump.