Senate Republicans are working to change a House GOP tax plan to require fewer cuts in Medicaid health benefits for the poor and disabled, seeking to mollify members of the party worried about a public backlash.

Senators are expecting to receive a consequential decision that will shape whether Republicans can make President Donald Trump’s expiring tax cuts permanent.

The longer run projections show a very gradual return to balance. But this assumes no recession and no further income tax cuts, for a decade. It might be better to rebuild the fiscal position more quickly so as to be better placed to provide fiscal stimulus in the event of a global recession or another pandemic.

Speaker Daniel Perez, a Miami Republican (center), wants to cut Florida's sales tax. Photo: Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via There's a big fight over tax cuts shaping up in Tallahassee.

The proposal from the Florida House Speaker to cut the state sales tax seems to be gaining fast support. A local travel company in Greenland’s capital also cancelled a planned visit by Usha Vance Putin may seize the moment to build a strategic land bridge via the Suwałki Gap,