White House officials outlined what one of them called an “aggressive” timetable Monday for getting a tax overhaul in place before the end of the year.
A top White House legislative aide said the plan for a tax code rewrite is to start hearings and a markup of the bill after Labor Day so a version can get through the House in October and the Senate in November. He also said a 2018 budget resolution—the first step to get a tax bill passed without Democratic support—would be agreed upon in September or October.
“So that, I think, is an aggressive schedule, but that is our timetable,” White House legislative affairs chief Marc Short said at a tax event in Washington sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, a group backed by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch.
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