MEMO SHOWS HOW REPUBLICANS USED TAX BILL TO ENRICH THEMSELVES
MEMO SHOWS HOW REPUBLICANS USED TAX BILL TO ENRICH THEMSELVES
https://crooked.com/article/gop-tax-cuts-culture-corruption/
BRIAN BEUTLER at Crooked
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Democrats are gearing up to make the culture of corruption President Donald Trump and his allies in Congress have brought to Washington, DC a major theme of the 2018 midterm elections.
Trump himself (favorability, 40 percent) will surely play a starring role in that campaign, as will supporting characters like EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who is amassing corruption scandals at a record-breaking clip, and Republicans in Congress, who refuse to conduct appropriate oversight.
But Republican complicity in the culture of corruption isnt limited to turning a blind eye to the goings on in the executive branch. To the contrary, the GOPs signature legislative accomplishment in the Trump era is an artifact of the deep rot of corruption running through Republican politics writ large, and there are new indications that the Democratic Party is prepared to extend the corruption case beyond Trump and his cabinet secretaries to the people who will actually face voters in November.
In a new memorandum scheduled for wide release this week, the Center for American Progress Action Fundthe advocacy arm of the influential Democratic think tankexplores the self-dealing nature of the GOPs corporate tax cut law, which Republicans enacted in historically opaque fashion late last year.
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