Story highlights Republican House members and senators are negotiating a final tax billA key issue is how to pay for the(CNN) Republican leaders in Congress are charging toward the end of the year with two major goals in mind: Passing a landmark overhaul of the US tax system and keeping the federal government running. Here's where congressional leaders have left those two goals going into the weekend:What about the tax bill? Efforts to reconcile the House and Senate tax bills continue into the weekend. As of Friday morning, one GOP Senate aide described the negotiations as still in their early stages even as lawmakers only have a matter of a week or so to iron out their differences before the planned holiday break. The biggest hurdle remains the fact that the Senate must fit its bill through a narrow set of Senate rules, including one that says the bill cannot add to the country's deficit after a decade.

Source: CNN December 08, 2017 23:26 UTC