After Brinkmanship Over Debt, House GOP Tees Up Potentially $1 Trillion In Tax Cuts

Less than two weeks after the end of the debt limit fight that Republicans said they started because they worried about government red ink, House Republicans moved a step closer to possibly adding as much as a trillion dollars more in debt through tax cuts.

The tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee late Tuesday approved a trio of bills that would extend or expand parts of the Trump tax cuts from 2017 and take back green energy tax cuts included in last year’s Inflation Reduction Act.

While the nonpartisan Joint...