White House doubles down on payroll-tax cut opposed by GOP senators

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told reporters Tuesday that President Trump is committed to including a payroll-tax cut in the next coronavirus relief bill despite firm opposition from Senate Republicans.

Emerging from a meeting with Senate GOP negotiators, Meadows said Trump is holding firm on his demand that the new legislation cut payroll taxes for employees, after the CARES Act from late March allowed employers to defer parts of their 2020 payroll taxes for two years.

"The president is very committed to a payroll tax deduction," Meadows said after meeting with Republicans in the Senate Appropriations Committee's offices.

Asked if Trump views the payroll-tax cut as a "red line," Meadows responded: "I don't think that in any negotiations that there are red lines but there are certainly high priorities and it will remain a very high priority for the president."

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[leftieNanner]

1. I would think a lot of these Repugs would be on board with this

It's another fine way to weaken Social Security for now and for the future. Isn't that what Mitt Romney has been lusting for all this time?

[Thomas Hurt]

2. why is trump fixated on this...

[shockey80]

4. He knows his voters are idiots.

He can tell his voters, look at the pay raise I gave you. Look at the tax cut I gave you. DUH!

[pandr32]

3. Tough!

[stopbush]

5. Such an ignorant asshole.

Unemployed people aren’t on the payroll. They don’t pay payroll taxes. How does a cut in payroll taxes help the unemployed? It doesn’t. It just attacks the mechanism that funds SS.