(MENAFN) The White House warned conservative lawmakers that they should get behind President Donald Trump's agenda or he may bypass them on future legislative fights.
The White House chief of staff Reince Priebus threaten to build a broad coalition on tax reform that will include moderate Democrats came as the Republican head of the tax-writing committee in the House of Representatives and he hoped to move a tax bill through his panel this spring.
In addition, Kevin Brady, the Chairman of House Ways and Means Committee said his committee had been working on tax reform in parallel with the failed healthcare reform push.
Priebus said: "If we can come up with a bill that accomplishes the goals of the president with Republicans alone, we'll take it and we'll move forward with it."
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