Congressional Republicans face a unique challenge in enacting President Donald Trump’s pledge to eliminate taxes on Social Security income, a popular promise among some higher-income retirees.
Republicans aim to pass a bill to extend and expand Trump’s 2017 tax cuts through a budgetary procedure that allows lawmakers to bypass the Senate filibuster. The House took a step Thursday in that direction by approving the same budget framework as the Senate already had.
But the law that created the budget reconciliation maneuver bars lawmakers from changing Social Security using that procedure. That’s prompting key GOP tax-writers — aiming to please Trump ...
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