Scott Jennings: House GOP Need to Get Tax Bill Done Before August to Avoid Facing Hard Questions from Trump Voters

Dean: “And Congressman Mike Lawler has said that there are Republicans from districts like his or California in these high tax states where Republicans — they help Republicans get their slim majority, that they‘re the majority makers in these kind of tighter districts, and they need to take something home to their constituents. Does he have a point there? Do you think that‘s resonating?”
JENNINGS: “Yeah, it‘s another group that has to be appeased. I mean, that‘s what I was saying earlier. When you‘re dealing with so many different kinds of issues and so many different groups of Republicans, you know, everybody‘s got the issue that they‘ve got to take back home or that they believe they were sent to Congress to enact. So, yeah, it‘s another one of those things they got to try to help. And like Congressman Lawler, he‘s in one of those districts that‘s very purple, and that will be obviously an issue next year. So I‘m sure the speaker and his team are taking all of that into account as they move towards final passage. Of course, just getting it out of the House is not the end of the story here. No matter what is in this thing, when it goes over to the Senate, you know, they say in Washington there‘s two parties, the House and the Senate. And when it goes over to the Senate, they‘re going to have changes. There‘s people in the Senate that have ideas, and you could see even, you know, a much different bill when they pass something and then the two chambers come together. So, you know, there‘s still a long way to go. The real issue here is getting it out of the House, moving the ball down the field, getting the president towards what he wants, which is one big, beautiful bill that enacts the agenda on which he ran. My political thought is they really — the Congress needs to get this done by August, before the August recess, if at all possible, because I think if these Republicans go home before August without having delivered for the president, they‘re going to face some hard questions from their constituents who voted for Donald Trump about why you‘re not helping him enough to get his agenda enacted.”