Billy House

Republicans broadly agree that there's little room for error on what is a rare opportunity for the GOP to update the Tax Code without having to make any concessions to Democrats.

Republicans represent congressional districts with 19 of 25 major automaker battery and EV assembly plants in operation or under construction.

The expiration next year of the 2017 tax law puts trillions of dollars in tax provisions in play.

The House Freedom Caucus suggested Congress pay for emergency aid to Israel by repealing the IRS expansion, among other possibilities.

The measure now heads to the Senate where lackluster Republican support threatens to sink it.

Speaker Mike Johnson will allow a vote on a $78 billion business and child tax break bill, siding with corporations over a group of Republicans who objected to the package negotiated with Senate Democrats.

A growing divide is emerging between Republicans and the business interests the GOP once unflinchingly championed.

The dollar figures in the report come from two years of records obtained by Democrats after a protracted court battle with Trump's former accounting firm.

The latest indictment against the president's son accuses him of avoiding taxes while living lavishly, including withdrawing $1.66 million in cash over a four-year period.

A series of tentative compromises were worked out on spending caps, the defense budget and IRS funding.

While McCarthy offered a customary nod to hopes of cooperation with political opponents, he concentrated on unifying Republican populists by taking aim at enemies like the IRS.

Businesses are lobbying hard for Congress to pass a package of tax breaks worth about $100 billion before the end of the year.

The House speaker cast doubt on a drive by progressive Democrats to get some version of President Biden’s agenda through Congress by March 1.

A top House Democrat suggested Thursday that his party scale back eligibility for child tax credits as a way to unlock President Joe Biden’s stalled economic agenda.

President Joe Biden’s signature plan to expand the social safety net, address climate change and rewrite tax policies passed the House Friday morning as Speaker Nancy Pelosi united fractious Democrats to send the legislation to the Senate, where its fate remains uncertain.

The House reconvened for the vote Friday after Republican leader Kevin McCarthy delayed action with a more than eight-hour floor speech.

There were last-minute changes on modifying the SALT deduction and a provision allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices.

Democrats have found new urgency to pass the roughly $1.75 trillion tax and spending plan as well as an infrastructure bill with $550 billion in new spending after being stung by a Republican sweep of statewide races in Virginia.

A new round of haggling started, as they worked to fill in details and deal with last-minute attempts to restore priorities that had been left out.

Influential lawmakers still want various tax provisions in the bill.