By Tami Luhby, CNN
(CNN) — House GOP leaders are scrambling to put the finishing touches on their massive GOP tax and spending cuts package, in hopes of passing President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” later this week and sending it over to the Senate.
Speaker Mike Johnson is engaged in last-ditch negotiations over several unresolved issues involving Medicaid, green energy tax credits and the state and local tax deduction.
The package includes several controversial measures that would deeply cut into two of the nation’s key safety net programs – Medicaid and food stamps – while making permanent essentially all of the trillions of dollars of individual income tax breaks contained in the GOP’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. What’s more, it would fulfill Trump’s campaign promises to cut