US House Republicans head toward final vote on Trump’s sweeping tax-cut bill

  Democrats are united in opposition to the bill but on their own lack the votes to stop the bill in the chamber, which is controlled 220-212 by Trump’s Republicans. Republicans can afford no more than three defections to get a final bill passed. Democrats are united in opposition to the bill but on their own lack the votes to stop the bill in the chamber, which is controlled 220-212 by Trump’s Republicans. Republicans can afford no more than three defections to get a final bill passed.