President Donald Trump surprised major members of his administration with a promise to deliver a tax plan last Wednesday, according to a new report.
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The mad scramble to write Trump's tax plan sounds like it was a mess
The Trump White House and Treasury Department wasn't ready to roll out the tax plan when Trump promised, according to a new report.
President Donald Trump
According to Politico's Josh Dawsey, Tara Palmeri, and Ben White, the Treasury Department and White House officials scrambled to complete the tax plan before the artificial deadline.
In an interview with the Associated Press on April 21, Trump promised to release the tax plan the following week, part of an attempt to show progress on his promised "biggest tax cut in history" before his 100th day in office. But that had not been conveyed to administration officials beforehand, according to Politico, which cited numerous White House and Treasury sources.
According to the report, Treasury officials had wanted to work out a tax plan with more details to unveil sometime over the summer. At the time Trump gave the AP interview, no text of the plan had been written, and o
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