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There is still no Senate tax bill and a vote could be just hours away
Republicans are overhauling the nation’s tax code on the fly.

Senate Republicans don’t have a tax bill yet. But they plan to pass one Friday.

The majority is short on votes — nearly suffering a humiliating loss on a procedural vote Thursday — and desperately rewriting its tax overhaul mere hours before they plan to put it on the Senate floor for passage.
What’s being discussed? You could ask a half-dozen senators and get a half-dozen answers. Senators learned Thursday that a “trigger” proposal by Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) to have automatic tax hikes if the federal deficit increases too quickly would not fly under the Senate’s “budget reconciliation” rules. That threw the whole plan into chaos.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/1/16722504/senate-tax-vote-no-bill