A massive corporate tax cut is the Republican tax overhaul's entire reason for being. It is the star around which the rest of the plan orbits.
But Senate Republicans, in a frantic rewrite of their tax bill late last Friday, appear to have screwed it up. Kind of. At least for now.
The price tag for the apparent mistake, added hastily in a late-night, partially handwrittendraft, is $250 billion or more, according to some rough outside estimates. Businesses are furious. Correcting the Senate's error is expected to be priority No. 1 as House and Senate members start negotiating a final tax package this week.
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