House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday that partisan voting is at an all-time high on Capitol Hill.
“I think we’re finding too much of that in almost anything you do,” Mr. McCarthy, California Republican, said on CNBC. “Our whole system of government is devised to find compromise.”
“Democrats were whipped last week to vote no on a funding bill that funded government, on the same level, for two weeks,” he said.
But Mr. McCarthy said the tax bill will be a beneficial for all Americans despite being passed on partisan lines.
“This is the start of America’s comeback,” he said.
When asked if he thought the lowered cap for state and local tax deductions, and elimination of other deductions, would push people out of high-tax states, Mr. McCarthy said that is a trend that’s already happening.
“We lost Toyota, we lost my neighbors down the street that had a small business with just 20 employees because you had a 13 percent state tax,” Mr. McCarthy said, referencing his home state of California. “That is already happening.”
The House will conduct a revote later in the afternoon. The Senate has already passed the bill.
Republicans plan to have the bill to President Trump this week.
• Sally Persons can be reached at spersons@washingtontimes.com.
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