Americans for Tax Reform and several other conservative advocacy groups have banded together to launch an assault from the right on a proposed fiscal commission that would be endowed with the power to produce fast-tracked deficit reduction measures.
In a letter to lawmakers set for release Thursday, the organizations urged rejection of fiscal commission bills in both chambers that some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle would like to attach to fast-moving legislation, like the fiscal 2024 spending bills due next month.
The groups charge in their letter, obtained by CQ Roll Call, that a fiscal commission “is a tax trap designed to get Republican fingerprints on a tax increase in exchange for ‘spending cuts’ that never materialize.”
