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“So that, I think, is an aggressive schedule, but that is our timetable”, Short said, according to Politico. Dean Heller, R-Nev. while speaking during a luncheon GOP leadership, Wednesday, July 19, 2017, in the State Dinning Room of the White House in Washington.

It’s important for the three targeted Democrats to show independence, said David Heller, a Democratic campaign strategist whose clients include Donnelly and other red-state Democrats.

But others blame the president for the legislative stalemate.

Lawmakers are scattering for their summer recess, leaving behind a slim record of achievements and a steaming President Donald Trump.

“We’ve learned how hard it is to thread the needle with 52 senators”, Short said at an tax reform event Monday sponsored by the Koch groups.

In rural states with weak educational systems and many adults unable to compete for decent jobs in a globalized economy – for example, West Virginia, Maine and Alaska – the game plan for those who don’t want to work anyway is clear: apply for a Social Security disability, food stamps, Medicaid and so forth.

“What I’m going to say to them is the truth”, Louisiana Sen.

Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) described in an interview, posted Thursday, with Slate’s Jim Newell how he’s preparing to speak with Republican Louisianans who have grown tired of watching a stalled conservative agenda fail to take shape under their party’s leadership.

“What it’s going to amount to is for (Senate Minority Leader Chuck) Schumer not to tell his people like (Democratic leaders) did on health care, “Don’t work with the Republicans” because that just poisons the well, ‘” Grassley said. That means Democrats could cast deciding votes. The president is angry about what the Republican-led Congress couldn’t do – repeal Obamacare – as well as one of the few things it did: approve a Russian Federation sanctions bill he detests.

Forty-five Senate Democrats sent a letter to McConnell outlining the conditions that needed to be met for them to work with Republicans on a tax bill: no tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and no cuts to entitlement programs to pay for tax cuts.

Schumer said Thursday that McConnell’s rejection of the Democratic overture suggests that Republicans are pursuing tax cuts for the rich, noting that McConnell has agreed with Democrats that tax reform should be revenue neutral.

“We don’t want any tax cuts for those in the top 1 percent”.

But core tax overhaul principles – such as whether the effort would add to the budget deficit – haven’t been ironed out, much less the devilish details.

“Ultimately, we have to put incentives in place to get that growth rate up”, McConnell said.

Republicans aren’t expected to try to pass their repeal bill again before they leave for their August break.

“Mitch M, go to 51 Votes NOW and WIN. McCain for not even moving forward with these bills”, says Basel.

With the failure of Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, there is an urgent need to address the law’s problems. “We didn’t have 50 Republicans”.

That is likely contributing to their defiance, which is emerging now after an accumulation of frustrations, culminating in the failure of the health care bill Friday.

Along those lines, Senate GOP health committee chairman Lamar Alexander of Tennessee discussed health care today at a private meeting with the panel’s top Democrat, Patty Murray of Washington.

Heller is working with Sen. Lisa Murkowski – and a few others who blocked the Senate compromise to replace Obamacare to defend welfare and the right be indolent with the same vigor as freedom of religion. While the USA corporate tax rate-with state taxes included-has hovered around 40% since 1986, the average rate in major industrial countries has plunged from more than 40% to just 24%.