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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a

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Republican, said Tuesday he would only support making President

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Trump's payroll tax holiday permanent if it was coupled with

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a larger reform to ensure the long term solvency of

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Social Security. Grassley told the Hill in an interview

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that he would like to see the Social Security Trust

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fund, which is funded by payroll taxes, made

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whole next year if Trump in Congress transformed the deferral

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of those taxes in 2020 into a permanent tax cut

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. Asked if he would support making permanent the payroll

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tax holiday that Trump announced over the weekend, Grassley

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said, Quote, I would not entertain that question

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unless it would go in with the reform of Social

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Security.