Last-Minute Handwritten Changes To GOP Tax Bill Draw Widespread Criticism
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — As Republicans continue to try finding the votes and support for their tax plan, one page of the nearly 500-page bill that could be voted on as early as Friday is drawing a lot of attention.
The page in question modifies the treatment of S corporation conversions to C corporations—the kind of minutia that would put most people to sleep.
But a revision of the bill sent to members of the Senate shows a borderline incoherent addition to the bill that's cut off at the bottom.
Senate Democrats seized on the page in question
The entire U.S. tax code is being rewritten at 6:30pm on a Friday in crayon ????️ #GOPTaxScam pic.twitter.com/DF6mQWAo0V
— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) December 1, 2017
Trying to review the #GOPTaxScam but they are making hand-written changes to brand new text as we speak – can anyone else read this? pic.twitter.com/JX8v1v4gyi
— Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) December 1, 2017
I was just handed a 479-page tax bill a few hours before the vote. One page literally has hand scribbled policy changes on it that can't be read. This is Washington, D.C. at its worst. Montanans deserve so much better. pic.twitter.com/q6lTpXoXS0
— Senator Jon Tester (@SenatorTester) December 2, 2017
The changes are drawing derision on Twitter
— rubbercat.net/simpsons (@rubbrcatsimp) December 2, 2017
%@^* it, we'll do it live pic.twitter.com/Ltub5uR4Qi
— Liam Donovan (@LPDonovan) December 2, 2017