Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said his chamber would vote on Tuesday evening. Lingering doubts about fate of the tax bill all but vanished on Monday after two of the last Senate Republican holdouts, Susan Collins and Mike Lee, agreed to support the legislation. “I’m ready to vote,” Republican Senator John Kennedy told Reuters. The plan includes a steep tax cut for businesses and temporary tax cuts for individuals, which would expire in 2025. Republican Senator Jeff Flake was still uncommitted late on Monday.

Source: Huffington Post December 19, 2017 15:33 UTC