Republicans have made several late changes to their tax cut and immigration bill
WASHINGTON — Republicans made several eleventh-hour changes to their massive tax cut and immigration bill as they tried to win over GOP holdouts and pass the bill through the House.
The revisions were unveiled late Wednesday evening, just before the House launched into an all-night session to debate and vote on the bill. President Donald Trump has urged Republicans to get behind the legislation, which enacts some of his campaign promises.
If the bill clears the House, it would move to the Senate for further consideration.
Among the changes that House Republicans made:
— They removed the sections that authorized the sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah. Some Republican lawmakers from Western states had objected to the sales.
— They changed the name of the new investment acco
