The Trump administration will spend the summer months assembling a tax package that makes individual rate cuts permanent, said Marc Short, the White House director of legislative affairs.
"As you know, the corporate tax relief was permanent in this most recent bill, but because of procedural hurdles in the Senate, the individual rates were not," Short told reporters May 25. "We'll have more to share with you guys later, but as far as the timeframe, it's probably toward the end of the summer that will be unveiled."
When asked for more information on what could be included in the package aside from making individual tax rates permanent, Short said he did not want to get ahead of the National Economic Council and the U.S. Treasury Department.
He also said the administration plans to put a greater focus on an infrastructure package in 2019 since political considerations have gotten in the way of this year's plans.
"On infrastructure, the conversations that we've had are that Democrats are not interested in giving the president a legislative victory in this midterm year, one that would certainly be a bipartisan bill," he said. "I think that there is a bipartisan interest in getting infrastructure resources available."
Despite support on both sides of the aisle for such a package, Short said, "The politics this year are intervening in that, and so I think it's something that we're going to focus on more in 2019."
