Guess who’s having dinner at the White House

President Trump prodded lawmakers Wednesday morning to “move fast” on tax cuts, on the heels of a meeting with bipartisan senators at the White House.

After the Senate’s embarrassing failure to repeal and replace Obamacare over the summer, Trump’s top legislative priority has shifted to passing tax reform. The resolution passed by unanimous consent in the Senate Monday evening and in the House Tuesday night and will now be sent to Trump for his signature.

“The party never united around Trump as it would another nominee, let alone president, and Trump is not a limited government conservative”, said Alex Conant, a former top aide to Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., a member of the committee, said before the meeting.

“When Steve Bannon and his donors are attacking Republicans and Democrats, they are actively helping [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer”, said Walsh. Orrin Hatch, (R) Utah.

“There are lots of things that we can do that can improve things that he seems open to”, Schumer told reporters Tuesday.

White House legislative director Marc Short says its principles for the tax overhaul will be released “in a matter of days, not weeks”. “We did a face plant on that exact logic”, Brat said.

President Donald Trump has been pushing for changes to the tax code to cut corporate and individual rates and simplify the system. For starters, they are going to assume the tax legislation will mean higher economic growth and greater future tax revenues.

Trump, in a pair of Twitter comments Wednesday, took on the role of White House cheerleader for tax changes, telling lawmakers that with the devastation caused by hurricanes Harvey and Irma, tax cuts and tax reform are “needed more than ever before”.

The other two were Joe Donnelly of IN and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, who were also at Tuesday’s dinner and, like Manchin, are considered moderate Democrats. “If Mitch McConnell can not get this done. with the House in Republicans hands, obviously the Senate and the presidency, then I think it’s time for him and a lot of his colleagues to go into a different line of work”, Ingraham said.

The White House and the Republican-led Congress have not put forth a detailed tax plan despite months of talks.

“We had a productive conversation about areas of agreement as well as areas where we will have to find compromise”, Manchin said in a statement after the dinner.

Conservatives are waiting anxiously for those tax reform details.

For their part, Democrats are projecting increased confidence about their prospects in next year’s midterms, especially in the House, where they must gain 24 seats to win the majority.

An impasse could doom the tax overhaul effort. Fifty-seven percent of Republican voters said they prefer Trump to work with both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill to achieve policy outcomes, compared with 31 percent who said they’d like him to work primarily with Republicans and 8 percent who want him to work primarily with Democrats.

Tax cuts have become the GOP’s MacGuffin.