Behind The Curtain: Trump Phones The Dems

Thanks again to Mike Allen @ Axios
When a dozen Senate Democrats met with two White House officials at the Library of Congress yesterday to discuss tax reform, President Trump called in from Seoul.

• Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) had convinced his party colleagues to hear the pitch from White House economic adviser Gary Cohn and congressional liaison Marc Short, who asked the Dems for advice.
• Axios' Jonathan Swan hears that when Trump rang in, Cohn put him on speaker.
• The president said the tax bill was awful for rich people, and repeated a line he has used about his accountant telling him its a bad bill for him.
• The meeting went well enough that the group plans to meet again next week.

P.S. Congress' nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation finds the GOP plan would raise taxes for nearly 20% of Americans over the next 10 years:

• WSJ's Richard Rubin: "By 2027, fewer than half of U.S. households would get tax cuts and another one-third would see their tax liability change by less than $100, while nearly one in five households would have a tax increase."