What’s up with Koch Bros lately? Are they mad they’re not the #1 GOP sugar daddies any longer? – PB/TK
Border tax is latest flashpoint between Kochs and the GOP – April 10, 2017
The political network funded by Charles and David Koch is seizing the break on Capitol Hill to try to torpedo a key part of the Republican tax bill, exposing yet another fissure within the GOP and gambling that it won’t sink the entire effort.
After months of private hand-to-hand combat in the halls of Congress, the Koch operation is beginning to bring public pressure to bear on a group of Republicans who are poised to support a border adjustability tax, a central tenet of the plan pushed by House Speaker Paul Ryan. And it is doing so by aiming to turn the same political coalition energized by President Donald Trump onto those Republican leaders, the latest pull in the tension between the Kochs and Trump.
It is a third iteration of that topsy-turvy relationship: After spurning Trump during the presidential election, and then helping to block the administration’s marquee legislative goal of repealing Obamacare, the Koch operation is now calling upon Trump’s very movement to dump a tax on which Trump himself has waffled.
Continue to cnn.com article: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/10/politics/border-tax-kochs-gop/index.html
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