{"id":12086,"date":"2017-03-30T18:24:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T01:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12086"},"modified":"2017-03-30T18:23:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T01:23:14","slug":"trumps-tax-reform-grand-delusion-bradcast-3302017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12086","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Tax Reform ‘Grand Delusion’: ‘BradCast’ 3\/30\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today on The BradCast<\/i><\/a>: So, what now? What’s the next step for Donald Trump’s seemingly perpetually faltering Presidency? He and Congressional Republicans suggest they’ll go for Tax Reform next. But will that scheme be any more successful than the big promises that Trump has, so far, tried and failed to accomplish? [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n

His Muslim travel ban was blocked for the foreseeable future, once again<\/a> last night, by a federal judge in Hawaii. His border wall, if it ever actually gets built, won’t be paid for by Mexico, apparently, but by U.S. tax-payers. Reportedly, the Administration’s not even sure where to put it<\/a>. His attempt at repealing and replacing ObamaCare went famously down in flames. His effort at rolling back Obama’s climate legacy is already facing its first legal<\/a> challenges<\/a> on a number of fronts and in a number of courts.<\/p>\n

But he and Congressional Republicans say massive reform of the tax code<\/a> will be next, even though it hasn’t been successfully accomplished since the 1980’s. And, in hopes of getting some Democrats on board, the Administration has been floating the idea of a massive infrastructure bill, perhaps, to go with it. But is Trump’s version of a “Grand Bargain” to bring enough Republicans and Democrats together to accomplish this next scheme any more viable than his previous ones? (Or more viable than when Obama tried, but failed, at something similar?) And, does it help that Trump attacked<\/a> both Democrats and<\/i> the far-right Congressional Freedom Caucus today?<\/p>\n

The great Heather Digby Parton<\/b> of Salon<\/a> and Digby’s Hullabaloo<\/a> returns today to discuss all of the above<\/a>, and a bit more, including whether Democrats can actually hold together in opposition; some little-noticed hypocrisy<\/a> related to Team Trump attorneys hoping to block<\/a> a sexual harassment-related lawsuit against a sitting President; an interesting explanation for Ivanka Trump’s “new” role<\/a> in the Administration; and whether Senate Democrats can or will<\/a> successfully filibuster to keep Judge Neil Gorsuch from being confirmed to the GOP’s stolen U.S. Supreme Court seat, as vacated with the death of Antonin Scalia more than one year ago…<\/p>\n

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