The Trump ‘Agenda’ Is Coming In Less Than Two Weeks.

So, Trump shows up in D.C. for Jimmy Carter’s funeral and has a meeting with GOP Senate members to talk about domestic legislation that will be on the docket for the first year of his new term.

And since the only domestic issue which the GOP is ever concerned about is how to cut personal income taxes, which usually ends up raising taxes, by the way, that was the issue which kept a Wednesday night meeting going for several hours on Capitol Hill.

The tax issue has to do with whether or not Americans who write off what they pay in state income and local property taxes against what they earn will continue to face a deduction cap of $10,000 or whether the cap will be listed or abolished altogether.

The $10,000 limit was part of the tax bill that Trump signed in 2017, and it expires at the end of this year. If a taxpayer itemizes deductions on his federal return, raising the cap to, say, $20,000 or abolishing it altogether would reduce someone’s federal tax bill significantly, obviously helping most of all the folks who earn a hefty number on the bottom revenue line.

When the bill was passed in 2017, it tended to be felt much more strongly by residents of blue states, particularly states in the all-blue Northeast, where property taxes in particular tend to be high because that’s also…