Republicans are seeing weak returns on the tax law

The law's neither a millstone nor an asset. No Images? Click here         Republicans Are Seeing Weak Returns On The Tax Law​ Opinions of the Republican tax plan appear to have stalled out, new polling suggests, leaving the law neither an obvious millstone nor an unambiguous asset for the GOP heading into the 2018 midterms. The law, which passed with historically bad numbers, saw rising approval during the start of the year, with many polls showing the public about split in its views. Republicans had hoped the law would boost their changes in November. In a new HuffPost/YouGov survey, 34 percent of Americans favor the law and 36 percent oppose it, for a net -2 rating. As before, opinions remain strongly politicized: Just 7 percent of voters who backed Hillary Clinton in last year’s election favor the tax bill, while only 6 percent of President Donald Trump’s voters oppose it. In a Pennsylvania special election earlier this month, Republicans all but abandoned the tax law in their talking points, apparently because it wasn’t helping. Democrat Conor Lamb ultimately won a shocking upset in a district Trump had carried easily in 2016. READ MORE     WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING? President Donald Trump marveled Thursday at all the federal court vacancies he gets to fill and wondered why President Barack Obama left him so many ― apparently unaware that Senate Republicans blocked Obama’s judicial nominees to those seats for years in hopes that a GOP president would fill them. READ MORE Public schools closed in at least 25 Kentucky counties on Friday as teachers staged a quasi-strike after legislation was passed that would overhaul the state pension system. Kentucky teachers called in sick or absent to protest the legislation, which passed mostly along party lines on Thursday night. READ MORE Stephon Clark, the 22-year-old father of two who was unarmed when he was fatally shot by police in California earlier this month, was hit eight times, an independent autopsy shows. READ MORE    .     ICYMI New Jersey's liberal new governor is the anti-Chris Christie. Phil Murphy is "rather boring," but he's pushing an aggressively progressive agenda in Christie’s old stomping ground.   Crystal Mason had been trying to restart her life after getting out of prison. She now faces another five years for illegally voting.   The militia members accused of a Kansas plot to massacre Muslims were too extreme for other extremists.    . Want more?  Netflix And Shrill: Conservatives Are Fuming At Netflix Over Susan Rice Trump Says His Border Wall Is Going Up Right Now. It’s Not. Jim Carrey’s Submission For Donald Trump’s Official Portrait Cannot Be Unseen     How will Trump’s administration impact you? Sign up for our email and find out. Did a friend send you this? Subscribe here. Like what you see? Share it. Want more? Here are two other newsletters you'll love: The Morning Email and Must Reads. ©2018 HuffPost | 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you signed up for updates from HuffPost Feedback | Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe    . - - Preferences  |  Unsubscribe