Schumer: GOP ‘Abandoning’ Its Principles With Tax Bill

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Schumer: GOP ‘Abandoning’ Its Principles With Tax Bill

By Thomas McKinless

Posted December 1, 2017 at 4:37pm

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As Senate Republicans barrel toward a potential vote-a-rama on the tax overhaul legislation, Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer called the effort an abandonment of the Republican party’s principles on the Senate floor Friday morning.

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