Schumer takes hard line with Trump on taxes
Source: Politico
'There is a path forward, but only after this tax bill fails,' Schumer says in a new 'POLITICO Money' podcast.
By BEN WHITE 10/25/2017 05:11 AM EDT
NEW YORK — Chuck Schumer has shown he’s willing to cut deals with President Donald Trump. But the Senate minority leader says Democrats will take a hard-line approach with the White House on taxes — and everything else — until Trump’s GOP-only approach hits a dead end.
“There is a path forward, but only after this tax bill fails,” Schumer says in a new “POLITICO Money” podcast to be released Wednesday. “The hard right, which cares so much about just reducing taxes, has a stranglehold on the Republican Party right now. And I don’t think they’ll give it up unless this bill fails.”
While Schumer has an odd-couple friendship of sorts with Trump, the Senate Democratic leader says it’s a purely transactional relationship. “I think he likes to talk to me because I’m a New Yorker,” Schumer said in the interview in his Manhattan office. “We’re both direct. We’re both blunt. I tell him what I think.”
Schumer’s comments about how Democrats will approach a tax overhaul took on added significance this week as Trump dug deeper into a bitter feud with Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) over the GOP’s tax efforts. Corker has expressed skepticism about supporting any bill that adds to the deficit. Republicans can lose only two votes in the Senate if they hope to pass tax reform along party lines, which is their current plan.
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