"Our Democratic colleagues simply refused to participate in the process. We probably could have made it better if they had, but we were determined to get this job done, to cut taxes, to reform the tax code for the first time in 30 years," Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) said on ABC News's "This Week."
"Once Mitch McConnell decided that 51 votes was all he was needed, and they were all going to be Republicans and make it political, that's exactly what happened,” Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) said.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) described the GOP legislation as a “massive attack on the middle class,” countering Republicans’ argument that the bill will help middle-class families.
Anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist argued in an interview aired Sunday that the tax overhaul Republicans are rushing to pass this week will help GOP lawmakers going into the 2018 midterm elections.
“Is that something they can go back, and repair, and look and see if there's any kind of bias that's in it? Obviously, I don't think it taints the entire process,” Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said.
"The question is what are they afraid of? What is the White House afraid of? Let's let them [investigators] finish the job and get the facts," Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said on ABC News's "This Week."
"You've got this civil war in these Republican primaries. They flock toward Donald Trump in the primaries. That's not going to be a winning message for them in the general," the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chairman said on ABC News's "This Week."
"I look at Alabama and I say people are not happy with us being small, angry and narrow," the Republican Ohio governor said on NBC News's "Meet the Press.” "They're starting to say no. That means that most of us who believe in a positive party are beginning to win, but we have a long way to go.”
The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday finds 50 percent of registered voters say they want a Democratic-controlled Congress, compared to 39 percent who want Republicans in control.
Sen.-elect Doug Jones (D-Ala.) on Sunday said he will “of course” consider voting with Republicans on certain issues once he is sworn in to the upper chamber.
“I don’t think that the president ought to resign at this point,” Sen.-elect Doug Jones (D-Ala.) told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We’ll see how things go. But certainly those allegations are not new and he was elected with those allegations at front center.”
“I’m not aware of that directive at all,” Mnuchin told CNN’s “State of the Union” when asked about The Washington Post report, which said the administration barred the CDC from using specific phrases like “science-based” and evidence-based.”
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