For a certain subset of lawmakers, slashing taxes for the wealthy and corporate America takes precedent over all else. We speak, of course, of Republicans, who are currently working on tax-reform legislation that would disproportionately benefit people like Donald Trump and do little—and in some cases actually hurt— low- and middle-income families, even (and, in some cases, especially) if it means cutting trillions from Medicaid and Medicare. As young Republicans in the schoolyard, this is the sort of thing these people daydreamed about; later, as undergrads, beneath posters of Ronald Reagan tacked to their walls, they would tell their suite-mates about their plans to go to Washington and write laws transferring trillions to the rich. As young twentysomethings, they wondered why their blind date with a sick grandmother never came back from the bathroom after being told, “My tax dollars are paying for your Nana’s dialysis.” And now, in a sign of just how badly the second coming of Alex P. Keaton wants to make tax cuts happen, House Leader Paul Ryan has threatened to make his colleagues stay in Washington longer than they are contractually obligated.

Speaking at a Heritage Foundation event Thursday, Ryan told the crowd, “We’re going to keep people here for Christmas if we have to. I don’t care. We have to get this done.” While he was undoubtedly serious about the threat, Ryan noted that he doesn’t think it will come to exchanging gifts at the Capitol; the current plan is for Republicans to pass a tax bill through reconciliation, given that they’re unlikely to gain Democratic support for a plan will, at best, toss middle-class families an extra few hundred bucks a year. On the other hand, passing tax reform through a simple majority means Trump can’t afford to piss off more than two Republican senators, and right now he's working the the last nerves of a whole bunch of them. So everyone should probably have a pair of Christmas PJs tucked away in their desks, just in case.

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Chuck Grassley fact-checks Trump’s tall tax tales

Speaking of people who are sick of Trump’s schtick—in this case, his penchant for trafficking in “alternative facts”—Republican Senator Chuck Grassley took to Twitter today to tell the president that the claim he’s ushering in the yugest tax cut ever is about as accurate as Trump’s insistence that he’s doing a great job in Puerto Rico.

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