The White House assistants are quietly floating a proposal within the GOP, which would increase the tax rate for people earning more than one million to 40%, two sources familiar with discussions told Fox News Digital, to compensate for the cost of removing overtime salaries, salaries charged and retirement social security.
The sources emphasized that the discussions were only preliminary, and the plan is one of many that are said to be that congress Republicans work on the progress of the President Donald Trump agenda through the budget alignment process.
Trump and his White House have not yet taken a position on the matter, but the idea is watched by his assistants and staff on Capitol Hill.
Meanwhile, GOP leaders, including speaker Mike Johnson, R-L., Have publicly opposed the idea of any increase in taxes.
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Speaker Mike Johnson works to bring the agenda of President Trump through the budget reconciliation process (Getty Images)
“I’m not a big fan of that. I mean, we are a Republican party and we are all tax reduction,” Johnson said in “Futures on Sunday morning.”
One GOP MP asked about the proposal and approved anonymity to open openly that he would be open to support, but they prefer a higher starting point of $ 1 million.
They said the reaction was “mixed” among other Republicans. But not all lawmakers are GOP for GOP to discussions, and it is not immediately clear how wide the proposal has circulated.
However, this signals that the Republicans are deeply divided into how to bring Trump’s tax agent.
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The expansion of Trump’s law on reduction of taxes and jobs for 2017 (TCJA) and the adoption of its newer tax proposals is the cornerstone of the Republican plans for the budget reconciliation procedure.
By descending the Senate threshold to pass by 60 votes to 51, this allows foreigners in power to hide the opposition to adopt a withdrawn part of the legislature that progresses in their own priorities – provided that measures are engaged in tax, consumption or state debt.
Trump’s tax reduction is expected to cost only trillion dollars. But even if Republicans use a budget calculation to hide their costs, known as the current basic policy, they will still have to find the way to new policies that eliminate taxes on advice, overtime and retirees and social security checks.
Ultra -rich hiking tax could also serve democrats in a ticklish political situation in forcing dialing between the support of Trump’s policies and opposing the idea they have been pushing for years.
The leader of most of Steve Scalise’s house also opposes the increase in the rich tax (Reuters/Mike Segar)
The highest income tax rate is currently about 37% at $ 609,351 earnings for one person or $ 731, 201 for married couples.
But increasing the rates for the millionaires could be one way to pay Trump’s new tax policies.
Chairman of the House of Liberty MP Andy HarrisR-md., One of the shortcomings of a hawk that leads a charge to ensure that the new consumption has been paired with deep cuts elsewhere, said “That’s one option.”
“What I would like to do is actually find a reduction in consumption elsewhere in the budget, but if we can’t get enough of consumption, we’ll have to pay a tax reduction,” Harris said last week for “Morning with Maria”.
“Before the law on reduction of taxes and jobs, the highest tax class was 39.6%, it was less than $ 1 million. In ideal, what we could do, again, if we cannot find a reduction in consumption, we say,” Okay, let’s bring that higher carrier, put it on maybe two million dollars of income and more, “to pay for the president’s restario.”
But Johnson’s number 2, the leader of most of Steve Scalise, r-la., Again poured cold water on Tuesday.
“I don’t support that initiative,” Scalise said “Morning with Mary,” even though he added, “It’s all on the table.”
House Freedom Cackus Cours Andy Harris signal an openness to the idea (Getty Images)
“That’s why you hear all ideas bounce around. And if we don’t take action, then you would have over 90% of Americans to see tax increase,” Scalise warned.
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When she arrived for the comment, the White House pointed to Fox News Digital on the comments of Printed Secretary Karolina Leavitt earlier on Tuesday, when she said that Trump had not decided on another proposal to raise the income tax ratio.
“I saw this idea suggested. I heard it discussed the idea. But I don’t believe the president decided whether or not he would support it,” Leavitt said.
Fox News Digital also addressed Johnson’s office for comment.