[Senate Republican tax plan clears hurdle with help from two key GOP holdouts]They’ve been making the most of it. For weeks, they participated in talks with the White House, reporting back positively on what they’d discussed. “I think it shows so clearly that this tax bill has nothing to do with the middle class. “When I took this job, I never expected that Republicans would let a tax bill include middle-class tax increases,” said T.J. Helmstetter, a spokesman for the progressive Americans for Tax Fairness. By opposing this year’s tax cuts, Democrats expect to run against Republicans’ own cuts to Medicare spending.

Source: Washington Post November 28, 2017 22:07 UTC