Tax cuts

The prospect of prolonged talks with holdouts threatens Senate Majority Leader John Thune's goal of passing President Trump's tax-cut legislation by July 4.

The sale of federal land would provide billions of dollars to help pay for the massive package of tax cuts in the Senate's version of the bill.

It would extend Trump's first-term tax cuts due to expire Dec. 31, along with new tax relief including raising the limit on deducting state and local taxes.

Wealthy Americans and business investors are among the big winners while targets of Trump's ire such as immigrants and elite universities were hammered.

President Donald Trump's much bigger-than-expected tariff hikes increase the urgency of the Republican tax-cut package now in negotiation.

Trump needs as much revenue as he can get as Republicans in Congress work to iron out a plan to extend the 2017 tax cuts that are due to expire later this year.

The incoming Treasury chief will have to reconcile his deficit-reduction plans with the Trump administration's much-anticipated tax cuts.

The mood in markets and the financial situation are starkly different from 2017, when Trump and congressional Republicans passed a deficit-expanding tax cut.

Republicans broadly agree that there's little room for error on what is a rare opportunity for the GOP to update the Tax Code without having to make any concessions to Democrats.

Johnson said the massive bill would address issues such as border security, including money for the mass deportations of undocumented immigrants; and an extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts.