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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., flanked by Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon, left, and Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., speaks to a group of small business owners about the GOP tax bill on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 30, 2017 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite).

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Analysis & Opinions - The Washington Post

Dear Colleagues: You Responded, But We Have More Questions About Your Tax-Cut Analysis

| Nov. 30, 2017

We appreciate that in response to our questions you clarified a number of points in your letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and, in particular, that you are backing off the statement in your original letter that “the gain in the long-run level of GDP would be just over 3%, or 0.3% per year for a decade.” As you state in your response to us, “We did not offer claims about the speed of adjustment to a long-run result.”