There will be no compromise on the Bush tax cuts in the lame duck session if House Minority Whip Eric Cantor has anything to say about it. Appearing on Fox News’ On The Record last night, Cantor made it clear that he will not be supporting any efforts to compromise on extending the cuts set to expire next year. Cantor told Greta Van Susteren that last Tuesday’s election gave the still-minority GOP the mandate to vote only to extend all the cuts, not a compromise package of cuts that Democrats say lessen the long-term fiscal impact of extending the massive tax cuts created by the Republican Congress and President Bush back in 2001.
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