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The Big Story

Senate GOP rejects House conservative tax pitch

Senate Republicans are tossing cold water on proposals by some House conservatives to raise corporate taxes to help pay for President-elect Trump’s tax agenda.

“Absolutely not,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said of proposals to raise the corporate tax rate.

“We were trying to be competitive on the world stage when we dropped it to 21 percent,” he said. “To raise that is not the way to get an economy going.”

Some conservatives, notably Rep. Chip Roy (Texas), have floated the idea of raising the corporate tax rate by a few percentage points to ensure the budget reconciliation package Congress plans to pass later this year doesn’t add to the deficit.

More recently, the House Freedom Caucus has floated a proposal to offset the cost of raising the cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions for individuals and families by restricting state and local tax deductions for corporations.

Roy told The Hill in an interview last week that corporate tax increases should be “on the table” as possible pay-fors to keep Trump’s legislation agenda from adding to the nation’s ballooning debt.

“I’m on the record as saying everything should be on the table, and I’m on the record of having said, ‘Why should we just allow corporate taxes to stay in place, or think about lowering them, if … we’re not doing what we need to do on the individual tax rate side or if we’re not balancing the budget or being deficit neutral?’” he said.

The Hill’s Alex Bolton has more here.

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Essential Reads

Key business and economic news with implications this week and beyond:

Yellen: Debt limit will be hit day after Trump’s inauguration

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State Farm cancels Super Bowl ad over California wildfires

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Kevin O’Leary says he’s offering $20B cash for TikTok

Investor Kevin O’Leary, widely known as a star from “Shark Tank,” said he offered TikTok’s owners $20 billion in cash to buy the platform during a Friday appearance on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom.”

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Mayors nationwide warn of worsening housing shortfall

Mayors nationwide are warning of a worsening housing shortfall as decades of “insufficient” investment along with rising costs of housing during the COVID-19 pandemic aided in making housing unaffordable to most Americans, according to a survey.

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COMING UP

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The Ticker

Upcoming news themes and events we’re watching:

President-elect Trump is expected to sign a raft of executive orders, including potential tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, after he’s sworn in Monday at noon ET.

In Other News

Branch out with more stories from the day:

What will happen to TikTok on Apple’s and Google’s app stores on Sunday?

With President-elect Trump adding uncertainty around whether a TikTok ban will go into effect, the …

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Good to Know

Business and economic news we’ve flagged from other outlets:

Democrats push for inaugural oversight as Trump committee rakes in cash (CNBC)
Instagram and YouTube Prepare to Benefit From a TikTok Ban (The New York Times)
Trump AG Pick Bondi Discloses $3 Million in Truth Social Stock (Bloomberg Law)

What Others are Reading

Top stories on The Hill right now:

Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban

The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld a law requiring TikTok’s China-based parent company to divest from the app, teeing up a ban set to take effect Sunday. Read more

Trump inauguration protests underscore how the resistance has changed

Protesters are set to descend on Washington, D.C., on Saturday ahead of President-elect Trump’s inauguration, an event that will lay bare how the resistance has changed in the eight years since he first took office. Read more

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