Taxes May 23, 2025
SALT Write-Off, Harvard Tax, Medicaid Cuts: What’s in Trump’s Bill
Here’s a rundown of the House bill’s main provisions impacting people and businesses.
Taxes May 16, 2025
Rep. Andrew Clyde, Other Rebel Republicans Derail Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
Although Clyde and other conservatives support the tax cuts in this package, they said they worry that the GOP plan doesn’t go far enough to cut spending and change how Medicaid works.
Taxes May 16, 2025
Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful’ Budget Package Bottled Up in House Committee, for Now
House Republican leaders couldn’t nail down the votes needed to advance the GOP’s giant budget reconciliation bill out of the Budget Committee on Friday in the face of opposition from a handful of hard-line Freedom Caucus members.
Taxes May 16, 2025
Trump-Backed Tax Bill Would Expand Child Tax Credit, Establish ‘MAGA Accounts’ for Kids
An expansion of the child tax credit and new “MAGA savings accounts” for children are among the proposals in President Donald Trump’s “One, Big, Beautiful Bill.”
Taxes May 15, 2025
NY GOP Rep. Mike Lawler Calls MTG ‘Jewish Space Laser Lady’ in SALT Feud
Rep. Mike Lawler traded insults with fellow Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in a nasty online spat over his push for a higher cap on deducting state and local taxes.
Taxes May 14, 2025
The Biggest Losers in the GOP Plan to Slash Clean Energy Tax Incentives
The draft framework put out Monday by the Ways and Means Committee takes aim at billions of dollars of incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act, including tax credits for electric vehicles and solar and wind projects.
Taxes May 14, 2025
Republicans Could Reach SALT Compromise Wednesday, Johnson Says
House Republicans could land on a compromise on the state and local tax deduction on Wednesday, a deal that would represent a breakthrough in one of the thorniest policy debates in President Donald Trump’s economic package.
Taxes May 13, 2025
Voight, Stallone and Entertainment Groups Lobby Trump for Tax Provisions
A letter signed by the two actors urged the president to support tax measures and a federal tax incentive that would help bring film and TV production back to the U.S.
Taxes May 13, 2025
NY GOP Lawmakers Vow to Sink Trump Budget Over SALT Dispute
New York Reps. Mike Lawler and Nick LaLota say they plan to vote against the president’s tax cuts package because it only includes an increase in the SALT cap to $30,000, too low for the middle-class and affluent communities they represent.
Taxes May 13, 2025
GOP to Phase Out Biden Administration Energy Credits to Pay for Tax Cuts
House Republicans are proposing to eliminate a tax credit for electric vehicles and phase out incentives to develop clean-energy projects to help pay for President Donald Trump’s massive tax package.
Taxes May 12, 2025
House Tax Bill Draft Calls for $30,000 SALT Cap, Leaves Out Millionaire Tax
The House Ways and Means Committee release of the tax measures, ahead of planned debate on the panel Tuesday, is a sign the Republican-controlled chamber is moving toward a floor vote this month on the legislation.
Taxes May 9, 2025
House Tax Panel Releases Partial Version of Trump Bill
The House Ways and Means Committee on Friday night released a partial version of President Donald Trump’s tax proposal that calls for increasing the maximum child tax credit to $2,500 and raising the estate tax exemption to $15 million.
Taxes May 9, 2025
Malliotakis, Other House Republicans At Odds Over Higher SALT Cap
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) suggested she backs the GOP leadership proposal to increase the SALT cap to $30,000 from the current $10,000, even as other Republican lawmakers trashed it as a non-starter.