These demands would significantly narrow the extent to which tax reform could serve as a massive windfall to Trump personally. But they are insufficient so long as they don’t include disclosure as a precondition; and in any case, Republicans have already indicated that they will try to pass huge tax cuts on a partisan basis.
The onus on Democrats thus shifts from laying out a negotiating position to making issue of the GOP’s apparent interest in further lining Trump’s pockets, without knowing how lucrative their legislation will be for the president and his family, or why the president lied to them and the public about his financial secrecy.
We can add these concerns to the growing list of tests Republicans have posed to themselves, now that their signature legislative initiative has collapsed.
Amid the wreckage of Trumpcare, some Republicans have rediscovered a willingness to criticize Trump that they misplaced sometime around when he clinched the GOP presidential nomination last year. In a widely cited op-ed, excerpted from a forthcoming book, Arizona Senator Jeff Flake put a fine point on the fact that Republicans alone can sweep away these excesses, but have chosen not to out of expediency or denial. “Too often,” he wrote, “we observe the unfolding drama along with the rest of the country, passively, all but saying, ‘Someone should do something!’ without seeming to realize that that someone is us.”
It should be straightforward for Flake and two other Republican senators to make good on this confession by withholding their votes for tax cuts until the president adheres to the disclosure norm, so we can know ho much he’ll stand benefit and why he lied about his secrecy for so long. But more likely it will ignite the kind of drama that eventually sunk Trumpcare.
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