Washington Examiner by Steven Nelson 11/15/2018
President Trump told Senate Republican leaders on Thursday that his top lame-duck priorities include passing a spending bill with border security funds and approving new prison reform legislation — but middle-class tax cuts appear to have fallen from the agenda.
Trump vigorously invoked the tax-slashing plan in the final days of the midterm election campaign, but public accounts of an Oval Office agenda meeting do not mention the vow.
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., both omitted Trump's "pure 10 percent tax cut" for the middle class from public descriptions of the lame-duck agenda.
Gidley did mention, however, that Trump urged visiting senators to approve more routine legislation, including the farm bill and disaster relief funds.
The lame-duck session ending in January offers Trump his best opportunity to pass substantive policy measures before Democrats take control of the House of Representatives.
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