Trump's buoy on tax rate hikes on wealthy people quickly falls into Republican resistance

President Donald Trump's last-minute effort to raise taxes on America's wealthiest Americans has been sensation among Republican opposition, where the proposals have long been disgusting.

As Congressional Republicans assembled massive tax and spending cut packages to achieve Trump’s domestic policy agenda, the White House has been surrounding the idea of ​​allowing tax rates for the highest earners to rise as a priority for paying for other priorities, immigration and military without having to cut millions of Americans rely on like Medicaid Americans.

But the proposal was quickly overturned by Republicans behind the scenes this week, raising doubts about whether the party would emerge in the party’s last package.

Trump – sending mixed signals about the matter in the past few weeks – in a call with NBC News House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La), at least $2.5 million a year from 37% to 39.6% have put forward the idea of ​​top speed.

In Friday's Truth Social Job, Trump said he would "generously accept" tax increases for "rich people," while also warning of potential attacks from Democrats. Republicans should "may not do that," but if they do, he would "be OK."

Later on Friday, Trump said he believes taxes on the rich “benefit those with lower incomes” is “good politics.”

"But I don't think they will do that," he said.

U.S. tax reform president Grover Norquist told NBC News that Trump called him on Wednesday to seek advice on taxes for the highest income person. Norquist said he made the proposal both hard and hard for economic and political reasons.

"I think why I think the discussion about increasing interest rates is a bad idea: because it kills the job, it hurts small businesses, and in the campaign, no one has taken that as an option," Norquist said. "The other part is that the Republican Party as a whole is against it."

Norquist said Trump sounded like he accepted his argument, and the president even offered a role model of how George HW Bush suffered politically in his infamous campaign affidavit in 1988, "Read My Lips: No New Taxes". Trump also mentioned Bush's promise in his Friday Truth Social post.

The idea of ​​rising tax rates also doesn't get along well with Republicans on Capitol Hill, though they called the idea on Wednesday's phone call with Johnson. House and Senate Republican leaders have long resisted raising the highest tax rate - conveying enough votes to lawmakers and aides on Thursday evening to legislators and aides, which is tax on the wealthy.

According to Norquist, Johnson and Trump spoke again over the phone on Thursday, as well as Republican sources familiar with the call.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, 12th r. Republicans said last Friday that “all lower taxes.”

"I don't want to see anybody's taxes. … But the president, he's not a traditional president. People aren't voting for a traditional president, and I think his policies reflect that," Thune said on CNBC's "Squawk Box." "It all started with the House and they're going to have to figure out how to dial this."

Republicans are confused about how serious Trump’s plan to raise taxes for the wealthy. Two weeks ago, Trump publicly lowered his idea of ​​increasing taxes on millionaires.

Members of the Trump administration also sent signals of conflict on Friday. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a briefing Friday that Trump personally wouldn't mind paying "helping the poor and the middle class and the working class," but said: "These negotiations are underway on Capitol Hill."

Meanwhile, National Economic Commission Director Kevin Hassett said on CNBC on Friday that Trump was "not excited" about the tax rate hikes of the rich, saying "this is not high on the presidential roster."

The White House did not respond to a request for further comment. Johnson's office also did not respond to a request for comment.

This issue has become a major flashpoint for the Republican Party, both in terms of the fate of their "big and beautiful bills" and the direction of the broader party, which under Trump's leadership has a more trend. This has led to some Republicans, such as former White House adviser Steve Bannon, who argues that tax hikes on the wealthy, while a major breakthrough with the traditional party’s orthodoxy, will be consistent with Trump’s populist approach.

Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo).

“Maybe one or two, but I don’t think so,” said Hawley, who tried to position himself as a working-class champion.

Ryan Ellis, a long-time tax policy adviser for conservatives, said the appetite for higher taxes on the rich is not among Republicans and predicts that they will "absolutely" go against Trump if he tries to pursue it.

"It's a fatal sin for the Republican Party. It's like asking a (Democrat) to deny that there is climate change or something," Ellis said.

House Republicans are competing for Memorial Day, which means their time has run out and a big decision is made.

Trump's growing stance in the tax part of the bill is just one of the issues that plague Republican leaders on the Hill. Johnson is also caught in a power struggle between moderates and conservatives, while fighting against a small group of Republicans from Blue State who can hit the full effort of statewide and local tax breaks.

The House's Ways and Means Committee's mission is to extend Trump's 2017 tax cuts, planning to mark some of its bills on Tuesday.

Committee chairman R-Mo, according to Republican sources familiar with the matter. Rep. Jason Smith is expected to meet with Trump at the White House on Friday.