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A key House committee voted to advance President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill late Wednesday evening, clearing a major hurdle after days of internal Republican infighting and setting the stage for a floor vote in the full House early Thursday.
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The multi-trillion-dollar tax bill that carries much of President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda passed its final committee hurdle late Wednesday night after a rare overnight and all-day congressional meeting,
The GOP tax bill could boost the highest-earning Americans' incomes while hurting low earners, according to findings from nonpartisan research groups.
Nothing good happens after midnight,” Rep. Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania recalled his late mother warning him. It’s a lesson that seemed to come true in the early hours of Wednesday morning, as a 1 a.
Republicans also used the manager's amendment to remove a federal requirement that firearm suppressors must be registered.
Deficit hawks who had blocked the measure two days earlier are still dissatisfied and want steeper spending cuts.
Nonpartisan research groups studying the proposal have estimated that it would add more than $2.5 trillion to the federal debt—currently at an all-time high of $36.8 trillion—over the next decade. Despite those projections,