President Trump was publicly agitated on whether Republicans in Congress should adopt a tax increase on the rich, which underlines their differences with the members of his own party about what he should be in a Megabill to carry out his agenda.
Trump on Wednesday had urged the private speaker Mike Johnson to create a higher tax range for those who earn more than $ 2.5 million a year. Hello, also the main Republican who supported the closure of what is known as the interest escape, which allows coverage funds, private capital and risk capital to pay taxes of only around 20 percent in their profits, which is the tax rate on higher income.
But on Friday morning, he seemed to retire from those ideas, saying that a tax increase could damage the political departure of the Republican party.
“The problem with a ‘small’ tax increase for the rich, that I and everyone else would accept to help the workers of the inferior and intermediate entry, that the radical democratic lunatics of the left were going to shout: ‘Read my lips,’ Bust My Bat, ‘Gorge Gorge Gorge Gorge Gorge Gorge,” it cost him the choice, “Mr. Trump wrote on his social media website. do, but it is not a gorge, but I’m fine.
Hours later they last an afternoon event at the White House, delivered a very different message, saying that “I would love” to do it as a “redistribution” or wealth to the lowest, and thought it would be good for political republicans.
Whipswing messages further complicated the work of Republicans while working to elaborate an internal policy bill that hopes to promote Congress this year. The divisions within the part on possible cuts to Medicaid and other popular programs to pay it, and which are tax reductions to include, have delayed the drafting of the package and threaten with SAP’s support for it. And the abrupt and sometimes fleeting demands of Trump for the bill have hung the conversations, with republican legislators reluctant to cross it but not be sure where he will stand up.
Trump is not constitutionally eligible to run for another election, unlike President George Hw Bush, who was accused or breaking his campaign promise not to impose new taxes.
But the Republicans already face back on Trump’s first four months in office, far ahead of the mid -period congress elections. And many do not do it because taking a vote that is used by the Democrats as a weapon against them.
His publication on social networks was wrong about the idea of increasing taxes on the rich left the president in case the Republicans resisted.
But the duration of an Oval office event on the night attended by some members of the Republican Chamber, Trump told a journalist that he strongly supported a higher tax rate and made the case he would help instead of damaging the Republican Party with the voters.
“I would love to do it, frankly,” Trump told reporters.
“You are renouncing something up to make people in average income, and low -income parenthesis, save more. Therefore, it is really a redistribution, and I am willing to do it if they want,” Trump said. It seemed to refer to the Republicans of the House of Representatives who were present.
“But I don’t think they are doing it,” Trump said seconds later. “But I think it is a good policy to do so, where the richest people surrender, and it is very small, it is like a point, but they give it to benefit people who are lower income.”
On Wednesday, Trump spoke with thicker Norquist, the anti-imposed crusade that for decades has pressed so that candidates sign a promise against new taxes, to urge their support for the idea of increasing taxes on the main winners. Some of the president’s AIDS suggested that doing so would not technically violate the anti-imposed promise of Mr. Norquist, according to two people informed about the call that were not authorized to speak publicly.
A White House spokesman only said that officials not disc. Trump’s private conversations.
Mr. Norquist, in an interview by letter when he was contacted abroad, refused to discuss what Trump had said about the idea.
But he said he told Mr. Trump that “raising the upper rate will kill jobs.”
“Increasing the maximum rate will slow down the economy,” he said. “And increasing the upper rate will mainly affect small entrepreneurs and women who have transfer corporations.” He said he stressed that his group had previously supported Mr. Trump’s campaign language on tax cuts.
Mr. Norquist published a similar one on the website X the same day as the call.
He said he separated to the White House that his group, Americans for tax reform, “has not declared a position on any hypothetical in the promise, which we do not do unless they do it in writing.”