Rep. Meadows: Trump’s base wants cut to corporate taxes before helping DREAMers.
 

Mark Meadows: Trump’s base wants Congress to cut corporate taxes before helping DREAMers

“If the very first thing we do is to deal with DACA, it would have negative ramifications.”

Some top Republicans are saying there won’t be a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — the Obama-era immigration order that President Donald Trump plans to sunset in March — until after tax reform.

And one key conservative House member explicitly laid out why: Trump’s voters won’t like it if the first piece of substantial legislation passed by a Republican-controlled Congress and White House is about undocumented immigrants.

“I think if the very first thing we do substantially on legislation is DACA, that makes it extremely difficult for the Trump voter,” Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), who chairs the House’s conservative Freedom Caucus, told reporters Tuesday. “Just that’s a political reality.”

Meadows continued:

I’m not trying to minimize the other things that have been signed into law, but I mean in terms of four or five issues that were campaign issues, immigration was one of them — if the very first thing we do is to deal with DACA, it would have negative ramifications for many conservatives.

In other words, there is a priority list, and massive tax cuts, which are shaping up to be a bonanza for the already wealthy, outrank addressing the 800,000 undocumented young adults, many of whom are currently working and going to school, who were protected from deportation under former President Barack Obama’s DACA order.

On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said Trump is behind this calendar decision, despite tweeting last month that a deal on DACA was coming soon. Senate Republicans said there have been no concrete decisions on a timeline for DACA.

“The first thing he said is he wants to do tax reform first,” McCarthy said of a meeting with Trump. “He doesn’t want to mix them together.”

Meadows’s admission on why this is the case is striking, but not surprising. Trump largely rallied support on an anti-immigration message and campaigned on a “tough on enforcement,” “tough on borders” platform. While a DACA deal would allow Congress to do something on immigration, and would almost certainly include some kind of border security provision, it’s far from a clear-cut conservative win on immigration policy.

Almost every legislative option to enshrine DACA into law — even those sponsored by Republicans — have proposed giving undocumented immigrants an eventual path to citizenship, which some ultraconservatives have decried as “amnesty.”

After several failed attempts to repeal Obamacare, the pressure is on congressional Republicans to deliver Trump’s base a legislative win. And Meadows doesn’t think a deal on DACA — which would have to be bipartisan because of the Senate’s 60-vote threshold — would deliver.

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fuck man... whatever, let them have it.

what do you guys think?

Re: Rep. Meadows: Trump’s base wants cut to corporate taxes before helping DREAMers.
 

And after Taxes back to the Healthcare endless debates.

Re: Rep. Meadows: Trump’s base wants cut to corporate taxes before helping DREAMers.
 

The only option I see now is attaching it to budget in December, I don't see any other option. After December Congress doesn't come back until the end of January and they'll find any excuse to not act after that or will probably be back to healthcare..

Schumer said yesterday they have the leverage so that;s it in my opinion.

Re: Rep. Meadows: Trump’s base wants cut to corporate taxes before helping DREAMers.
 

This is bullshit. Shutdown the government. Don't kick the fucking can down the road.

Re: Rep. Meadows: Trump’s base wants cut to corporate taxes before helping DREAMers.
 

They are not going to be able to pass tax reform lol. The republicans are not going to be united on this since the tax cuts are going to drive up the deficit causing at least a few fiscal conservative republicans to not vote again and I doubt the democrats are even going to entertain them. It’s going to fail like the last healthcare vote did.

Time to attach the dream act to every spending bill in December and/or shut down the government at this point

Re: Rep. Meadows: Trump’s base wants cut to corporate taxes before helping DREAMers.
 

Meadows got one thing right...Republicans haven't done shit yet. Tax reform definitely won't pass. If they want to do something significant in their miserable congressional term their only hope is saving us dreamers. Otherwise they can spend the next 3 years failing at everything.

Re: Rep. Meadows: Trump’s base wants cut to corporate taxes before helping DREAMers.
 

This.

We need to stop them from kicking the fucking can down the road. These motherfuckers have always done this.

Re: Rep. Meadows: Trump’s base wants cut to corporate taxes before helping DREAMers.
 

Hell naw

Re: Rep. Meadows: Trump’s base wants cut to corporate taxes before helping DREAMers.
 

Fuck the freedom caucus. Why are we worried about them? They will never support us

Re: Rep. Meadows: Trump’s base wants cut to corporate taxes before helping DREAMers.
 

The republican party needs to cut out the freedom caucus. I was really hoping the Republican party imploded and broke off into different subsets. I would actually consider supporting a moderate conservative party.