Repeal of Johnson Amendment removed from GOP tax bill

At least it's a speck of good news from the GOP's tax scam. But I reckon that Trump will try again.

https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/12/congress-fails-to-repeal-johnson-amendment-in-tax-bill/

The U.S. Senate’s parliamentarian struck out the language overturning the Johnson Amendment, with the Hill reporting last week that the reason was because it “did not meet Senate rules that require elements of the tax bill to have something to do with the budget.”

“The Senate is seeking to move a House-Senate conference report under special budgetary rules that prevent Democrats from using a filibuster,” explained The Hill.

“To use those rules, all parts of the bill must have a budgetary effect, and the parliamentarian ruled the Johnson language did not meet that standard.”

Introduced by then U.S. Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1954, the Johnson Amendment amended the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit houses of worship and other nonprofits from endorsing political candidates.