October 13, 2017 at 8:31 PM
The alarm bells the senator sounded came amid growing worries among Republicans about the party’s lack of legislative achievements. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
NEW YORK — Wealthy conservative donors and influential Republican lawmakers say they increasingly fear a historic backlash at the ballot box next year if the GOP effort to pass a sweeping rewrite of the nation's tax laws falls short in the coming months.
At a two-day midtown Manhattan summit of the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers' powerful donor network, GOP patrons, senators and strategists spoke in cataclysmic terms about the price they expect…