Trump, Republicans win key panel vote amid dramatic tax lobbying blitz

President Donald Trump forged important progress Tuesday in his effort to convince Republicans to unify and pass a huge tax bill that would represent his first significant legislative win and deliver on the Republican Party’s monopoly on Washington power.
Trump rallied Republican senators at a luncheon on Capitol Hill ahead of a crucial Senate Budget Committee hearing that had loomed as a cliffhanger moment in the effort to pass the bill.
Moments after he left the Capitol, two key Republi