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President Pivots Toward Democrats on Tax Bill — But It’s a Longshot

By John T. Bennett and D.A. Banks and Thomas McKinless

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Watch for White House Correspondent John T. Bennett’s takeaways from a Tuesday morning breakfast with Marc Short, the White House director of legislative affairs. Short discussed President Donald Trump’s push to get a tax bill over the finish line, but nodded to the fractured GOP caucus on the corporate tax rate as its own hurdle.

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