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Senate Rs, IIRC. The boilerplate started with Paul Ryan; House Rs demanded it be revenue neutral. The wonks who drafted Tax Cuts and Jobs noticed a major revenu
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Senate Rs, IIRC. The boilerplate started with Paul Ryan; House Rs demanded it be revenue neutral. The wonks who drafted Tax Cuts and Jobs noticed a major revenue-melting rewrite down to one page by Mnuchin. Senate Rs had to suppress their deficit hawks, namely Corker, and House Rs “folded like a cheap suit” -- Jim Cramer. The sentiment from waving a single page bill around was that, really, any act would do, and only the corporate tax cut mattered. This is what led to the bill including hand-written changes in the margin.