Here are the first two paragraphs of a Reuters report headlined, “Millions would lose mortgage, gift write-offs under U.S. tax bill: study”:

Millions of households would no longer benefit from federal tax deductions for charity donations, mortgage interest payments and property tax under Republican tax plans being debated in the U.S. Congress, a think tank said on Thursday.
The left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy said that up to 29 million U.S. households now writing off donations, home loan interest and state and local property tax payments would no longer be able to do so under either of the two plans.
While all three deductions are maintained in some form in one or both of the rival Senate and House of Representatives bills, far fewer taxpayers could take advantage of them because of other proposed changes, said the Washington-based group.

You absolutely would be “able to” write off charitable donations, home-loan interest, and some state-and-local-property-tax payments under both the House and Senate Republican bills. You would be able to write off exactly as much in charitable donations and home-loan interest as you can today. Nobody would “lose” the write-offs that the headline claims millions would.

It’s just that millions of people would find it more advantageous to take the standard deduction. That’s because the bills raise the standard deduction and curtail the state-and-local tax deduction. The result is to make it less appealing to itemize. The article never clearly explains this point, and its language is alternately misleading and flat-out false. The reader comes away from the article knowing less than when he started it.