BREAKING!!!
McCain's Wife Just Called TRUMP – IT'S NOT GOOD!!!
In an official White House statement we now know President Donald Trump on Friday made
a call the wife of Republican Arizona Senator John McCain, Cindy McCain, after getting news
that he had been hospitalized this week as he battles one of the deadliest forms of cancers
known to man.
McCain who is 81 years old was diagnosed with a highly lethal form of brain cancer in July
and on Wednesday his office said he had been admitted to the hospital with complications.
The statement read that Senator McCain was currently receiving treatment at Walter Reed
Medical Center for what is considered normal side effects of his ongoing cancer therapy.
But that he remains in high spirits and eternally grateful to his physicians for their excellent
care they have provided for him since his treatment has begun.
In the statement, he also thanked his friends and supporters for their encouragement and
good wishes and states that the senator looks forward to returning to work as soon as possible.
McCain's Republican colleagues expressed high optimism that he will be able to make
the vote on the tax overhaul next week since senators must be physically present on the
Senate floor to cast votes.
Considering this time he will vote with the GOP lets all hope and pray this is true.
MSN Reports:
President Trump: U.S. Economy to 'Rock' as GOP Races to Tax Vote
GOP lawmakers posted their sweeping, 503-page bill — with permanent tax cut for U.S. corporations
and temporary benefits for individuals — on Friday evening after gaining key votes from
two Republican senators who'd threatened to oppose it.
Now, with votes planned in the House and Senate by the middle of next week, Trump is closing
in on his first major legislative victory.
The bill — hammered out behind closed doors by Republican leaders — would slash the
corporate tax rate to 21 percent, the lowest that rate has been since 1939.
It would provide across-the-board tax cuts for most individuals, but then wipe them off
the books by 2026.
Whether to extend them would be up to a future Congress.
Trump's White House applauded Friday's developments, which Press Secretary Sarah
Huckabee Sanders called a major step toward achieving the president's promises of faster
economic growth and "much needed financial relief to all Americans."
"It'll be fantastic for the middle-income people and for jobs, most of all," Trump
said on Saturday at the White House before boarding Marine One for Camp David, the presidential
retreat in Maryland.
He predicted U.S. economic growth "could go to 4, 5 or even 6 percent, ultimately."
"We are really going to start to rock," Trump told reporters.
House leaders plan to hold their vote Tuesday.
Timing for the Senate vote was less clear, though Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
said the chamber would "get this bill done" next week.
Everything You Need to Know About the GOP Tax-Overhaul Plan
Trump and congressional Republicans have repeatedly pitched the tax measure as a boon for the
middle class, despite independent analyses of earlier versions that said most of the
benefit would go to higher earners.
The final bill would provide a larger tax cut for the highest earners by shaving the
top individual tax rate to 37 percent from 39.6 percent, a lower level than was proposed
in either the House or Senate versions.
"This April 15 filing season — that is the last time you will file under this monstrous,
broken tax code," House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady said Friday evening.
Brady kicked off a remarkably rapid law-making effort on Nov. 2, when he released an initial
bill.
The final version reflects significant changes — many of them aimed at shoring up GOP votes.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who had announced his opposition to an earlier
version of the legislation, switched to "yes" after tax writers changed the bill to broaden
the child tax credit's benefits for working families.
Rubio said in a Twitter message that the change "is a solid step toward broader reforms
which are both pro-growth and pro-worker."
'Major Wins' Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican
who hasn't committed to supporting the final legislation, issued a news release saying
she'd secured "major wins" in it, including provisions that would temporarily broaden
an individual deduction for medical expenses and broaden the types of state and local taxes
that can be deducted below a $10,000 cap.
Collins also seeks approval of separate legislation that would shore up individual health insurance
markets — where experts say premiums could rise because the tax bill would repeal the
Obamacare individual mandate.
The Congressional Budget Office has previously estimated that the change would lead to as
many as 13 million fewer Americans having health coverage over a decade.
But the most surprising announcement came from Bob Corker of Tennessee — the only
Republican senator who voted against an earlier Senate version of the legislation — when
he said that he'd reversed course and would vote "yes."
Corker's concern — that the legislation would increase federal deficits — was not
addressed in the GOP's final product.
In fact, the Congressional Budget Office estimated on Friday that the legislation would increase
deficits by $1.455 trillion over 10 years, an amount that's slightly higher than the
projection for the version Corker opposed earlier this month.
'Disappointing' on Deficit "This is a bad day to be a deficit hawk,"
said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense.
"While Senator Corker's decision is disappointing, the entire Republican conference should be
against this deficit-financed tax cut," Ellis said.
McConnell himself had cited deficit concerns earlier this year in discussing tax legislation.
"It will have to be revenue-neutral," he said in an interview with Bloomberg News.
"We have a $21 trillion debt."
By changing his position, Corker, who's exchanged bitter remarks with Trump over the
president's personal style, cleared the way for the president's first real policy
victory on Capitol Hill.
Whether it will constitute a political victory remains to be seen.
Public opinion polls have shown that earlier versions of the bill were unpopular, but Trump
administration officials and GOP leaders predict the tax cuts, once finalized, will gain favor
in 2018, ahead of congressional elections.
Democrats — all of whom voted against earlier versions of the legislation in both chambers
— have decried the rapid, largely secretive process that produced the bill.
"This monstrosity is a bill that only Donald Trump and Republicans, who have accomplished
next to nothing in this Congress, could love," said Representative Lloyd Doggett, a Texas
Democrat who serves on the tax-writing Ways and Means panel.
"It will not grow our economy, it only burdens us with an immense amount of debt."
On Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen offered only a lukewarm endorsement
of the legislation's effect on the national economy.
"It's not a gigantic increase in growth," Yellen said during a news conference.
I am very aware most people on the right don't agree nor hold Senator McCain in very high
regards, in fact, neither do I.
But he is still a human being that's suffering and he deserves our prayers and well wishes
at a time that's so tragic for him and his family.
Let's also hope and pray there comes a day we will never have to see another soul lost
to Cancer and its ravishing treatment.
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