President Donald Trump turns to talk to the gathered media during a Christmas Eve video teleconference with members of the mIlitary at his Mar-a Lago estate in Palm Beach Fla. Sunday Dec. 24 2017
Just take the theater of a couple weeks ago, when Republicans gathered at the White House to praise Trump after Congress passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut. The American people, however, will need some convincing.
At this point, five major Republican candidates are running for the GOP nomination. Similarly, Republicans cut taxes in 2017, not because the economy was hurting or our corporations sagging.
This isn't the first time Trump has tweeted to take aim at his erstwhile opponent. Orrin Hatch says we can't afford to do that. And some presidential hopefuls will begin racking up miles and building their cases, as Mayor Bill de Blasio and Vermont Sen. Democrats forcing what should have been a safe Virginia House of Delegates majority into a virtual tie - the final race, a literal deadlock, looks to be settled by drawing lots, and that contest will determine whether the two parties power-share - and winning special state legislative elections from Republican districts in Oklahoma and Georgia, along with converting a local election sweep in Chester County, Pennsylvania, something that hasn't happened in more than 100 years, should concern the GOP.
The tax overhaul is debt-financed and is expected to add $1.5 trillion over 10 years to the $20 trillion U.S. national debt, Dem. Rep. Joseph Crowley told CBS.
Some of the president's strongest allies conceded that voters may not immediately warm to the new law.
Whether the Trump-Russia-Mueller drama will move 2018 closer to 1998 or 1974, the post-Watergate midterm in which the president's party suffered huge losses, is anyone's guess.
Trump's proposal to prohibit immigrants from sponsoring family members to join them in the US, a foundation of the nation's immigration system for decades, enjoys little support in Congress, outside of Meadows' caucus and a handful of Republican senators.
Only about 1 in 3 voters have supported the legislation in recent days, according to several polls. Aides argued that media coverage has not accurately portrayed the benefits and that people will come around as they feel the payoff.
Special tax breaks for the real-estate sector may help Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, but it does not make America great or competitive.
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He issued a statement praising the president's eldest son, and says he regrets not having released it sooner. Miller called Bannon's comments in the book "out of touch with reality", "vindictive" and "grotesque".
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Democrats, who unanimously opposed the tax plan in Congress, were furious about the new policy yet upbeat about the potential political fallout in next year's elections.
In an interview with me, Rep. Jim Himes of CT - the number two Democrat on the House intel committee - said that Democrats are seriously exploring the possibility of issuing a minority report that details the degree to which Republicans tried to impede a full investigation, should that end up happening.
The answer to that question, however, depends upon which Republican you ask.
The bill goes far beyond taxes.
While it does not repeal the law known as "Obamacare", the legislation finalized by the House on Wednesday attacks a central tenet of the health care system by eliminating the requirement that all Americans have health insurance.
The Republicans' revoking of mandated coverage under the ACA is projected to drive up premiums for those Americans by 10 percent. He was one until he switched his registration to a Democrat amid unhappiness with Republican lawmakers, particularly on redistricting favoring the GOP and their refusal to expand Medicaid to the state's working poor. For instance, employers are expected to start withholding less income tax from employee paychecks starting in February.
By the way, an interesting wrinkle here is that firms will deduct the bonuses at the current higher rate of 35 percent, a much better deal for them than next year's bonus, which can be deducted at only 21 percent.
Trump this week called on the Justice Department to target Federal Bureau of Investigation officials for unnamed acts, generally furthering the narrative - fed by Nunes and conservative media - that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russian Federation probe shows Trump is the victim of a corrupt "deep state" plot to reverse the election, and that the perpetrators of that plot should be prosecuted.
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