Trump Ally Jason Smith to Lead Congress’s Powerful Tax Committee
- Jason Smith represents new guard of GOP economic policies
- The Missouri Republican is keenly interested in IRS oversight
Jason Smith
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Representative Jason Smith will lead the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, putting a decidedly populist and pro-Donald Trump lawmaker in charge of the chamber’s tax, trade and health agenda.
Smith, who advocates positioning the GOP as the party of the working class, represents a shift in Republican economic strategy away from the pro-free-trade, pro-business alignment it’s espoused for decades.