Orrin Hatch

  • Lawmakers scrambling to lock up Republican support for the tax reform bill added a complicated provision late in the process—one that would provide a multimillion-dollar windfall to real estate investors such as President Donald Trump.

    December 18
    Gary Cohn, the director of the U.S. National Economic Council, center, and Jared Kushner, senior White House adviser, right, listen while U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting in Washington, D.C.
  • Senator Bob Corker wrote to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch asking for an “explanation” of how a provision on pass-through businesses that would benefit real estate investors came to be included in the final version of the Republican tax bill.

    December 18
    Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.
  • Congressional Republicans revealed the final details of their agreed-upon tax-overhaul legislation Friday. It’s the culmination of a six-week legislative sprint designed to deliver a major policy victory for their party and President Donald Trump before year’s end.

    December 15
    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ken., surrounded by fellow Republican senators
  • A push by some Republican senators to ward off future deficits by tucking a potential corporate tax increase into their tax-overhaul bill would set up a kind of economic booby trap—putting the GOP’s much-desired growth at risk, according to a half-dozen economists, lobbyists and tax experts.

    November 30
    Hatch-Orrin-Senate-hearing
  • The Senate tax bill is headed for a marathon debate this week after Republican leaders brought the measure to the floor Wednesday with the goal of holding a final vote by the end of the week. Here are the latest developments, updated throughout the day.

    November 30
    Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., surrounded by reporters
  • President Donald Trump is pitching the Republican tax-cut plan as aimed primarily at helping middle-class Americans, but the biggest beneficiaries of cuts in the individual tax rates are in the wealthiest income brackets.

    November 29
    A printout of Congress's tax reform bill, "The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act," alongside a stack of income tax regulations
  • The mortgage industry is panicking over a provision in the Senate tax bill that some analysts and trade groups say may drive small lenders out of the business.

    November 29
    The U.S. Capitol
  • The Senate tax bill is headed for a marathon debate this week as Republican leaders plan to bring the measure to the floor Wednesday and hold a final vote as early as Thursday. Here are the latest developments, updated throughout the day.

    November 29
    The U.S. Capitol building stands before sunrise in Washington, D.C.
  • The Senate tax bill is headed for a marathon debate this week with the aim to hold a floor vote as early as Thursday. Should it pass, Republican leaders will have to hammer out a compromise between different provisions in the House and Senate bills. Here are the latest developments, updated throughout the day.

    November 27
    U.S. Capitol flag
  • The Senate tax plan encountered its first outright Republican opposition this week, from a senator whose concerns might foreshadow the biggest business challenge ahead for the proposal.

    November 17
    Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.