WASHINGTON–A Republican-led panel in the U.S. House of Representatives advanced a bill that would lock in individual tax cuts from President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax overhaul, a move widely seen as a partisan ploy to help Republican candidates in the Nov. 6 congressional elections.
Members of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee voted 21-15 along party lines on Sept. 13 to send the measure to the House floor for a full chamber vote, expected by Oct 1. But the legislation is likely to be dead on arrival in the Senate, where it would need Democratic support to gain the 60 votes needed to pass the bill.
