‘Have their cake and eat it too’: inside US big business’s tax cut campaign

Lobby groups push for changes to Trump-era tax law they once hailed as grand slam'

US corporations and their supporters in Washington are pushing aggressively to roll back tax policies they once endorsed, in a move that could return hundreds of billions of dollars to some of America's biggest companies.

As congressional negotiators attempt to keep the government funded past 19 January, an agreement is emerging that ties the corporate tax breaks to an increase in support for vulnerable American families - an effort to make the deal more palatable for Democrats.