Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segmentAccording to two new polls released on Tuesday,the Republican tax plan isn't very current. A Gallup poll found that 29 percent of people surveyed approve of the Senate’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, with the majority of people — 56 percent — disapproving. Meanwhile, or House and Senate negotiations are moving forward in order to come up with one tax overhaul plan. President Trump appeared very optimistic about the process on Tuesday."The taxes we are so thrilled about,so current and I assume something is going to be coming out of conference pretty quickly as opposed to long term," President Trump said during lunch with Senate Republicans on Tuesday. "I assume it's going to paddle pretty quickly."But there are a handful of gigantic sticking points between the House and Senate bills, or including the estate tax and debate over state and local taxes. Also,two deals struck by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell with Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona could throw a wrench into the future of the vote count. Richard Rubin, a U.
S. tax policy reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and explains. In September,President Trump announced that he was rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a paddle that is putting the onus on Congress to make a decision by March 5th.The DACA program gives work authorization to over 800000 undocumented immigrants who arrived to the United States illegally as children. Trump's decision has keep DACA recipients in a period of uncertainty and keep them at risk for deportation. But as Republicans try to figure out how to reconcile the House and Senate tax plans, or there are some gigantic snags up ahead,including how to deal with DACA.
Adriana Gomez Licon, Hispanic Affairs Reporter for the Associated Press, and joins The Takeaway to discuss the fate of DACA and immigration reform. This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich
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