Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, suggested in an op-ed on NBC.com this month that antipathy toward Mr. Trump was keeping Democrats from joining the tax effort. “Here in the Senate, the need for tax reform is loudly supported by Democrats — or at least it was, until the last election,” he wrote. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyPublicly, Republicans have long said Democrats should — and will — vote for their tax bill. Before the meeting, Mr. Trump joked that he expected to get “unanimous support” from Democrats on the bill. But, they said, Republicans have not agreed to some basic Democratic requests for the bill, including that it not add to the federal deficit.

Source: New York Times October 29, 2017 17:15 UTC