Despite weeks of consternation from some California House Republicans, a dozen of them joined their colleagues to pass a tax overhaul Tuesday, saying it would give most of their constituents a tax cut even as it retained cuts to popular deductions.
Hours before Tuesday’s vote, several activist groups rallied outside of Walters’ Irvine office.
“We will not rest while we have a chance to stop this thing,” Eddie Kurtz, executive director of the California-based progressive group Courage Campaign, said before the vote. “We will not rest until the final gavel falls.”