Senate Democrats have tried multiple times to have a meeting with their GOP counterparts and the Senate parliamentarian to decide the crucial procedural question of whether extending President Trump’s expiring 2017 tax cuts adds to future federal deficits.

And Republicans so far have “flat out refused” to have any such discussion, they say.

The partisan battle over how to “score” the budgetary impact of making Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent could determine whether Senate Republicans would need to rewrite the sprawling 940-page bill on the Senate floor.

Democrats must decide whether to force Republicans to obtain a parliamentarian ruling on the Senate floor Monday on whether making the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent would violate Senate rules.

An adverse ruling on the issue could derail the bill, but Republicans are confident that won’t happen.

Democrats say Republicans are trying to dodge Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough from ruling on whether the tax portion of the “big, beautiful bill” exceeds the reconciliation........

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