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President Donald Trump's prediction of "a very big day" for the stock market didn't exactly hold true Monday, and tax experts say it's probably because Senate Republicans unwittingly passed a bill that would mean higher-than-intended taxes for technology firms and other corporations. In a shift now under scrutiny by corporate tax officials and lawmakers alike, Senate tax-writers made an unexpected decision to keep the existing 20 percent alternative minimum tax for corporations -- a move that imperils GOP promises of business growth and more hiring, tax lawyers and lobbyists said.
The tax overhaul Republicans are pushing toward final votes in Congress could undermine the Affordable Care Act's health insurance markets and add to the financial squeeze on Medicare over time. Lawmakers will meet this week to resolve differences between the House- and Senate-passed bills in hopes of getting a finished product to President Donald Trump's desk around Christmas.
It was supposed to be a cakewalk for the Republicans: A special election to fill a vacant Senate seat in one of the country's deepest-red states. But Tuesday's vote in Alabama has turned into a hard-fought battle over both the limits of the nativist populism that carried Donald Trump to the presidency, and accountability for powerful men accused of sexual misconduct.
Former NFL football player Vonta Leach, left, who voted for Hillary Clinton, gets his haircut alongside Jamie Locklear, who voted for Donald Trump, at a barbershop in Lumberton, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. Leach has no problem with Trump's supporters: he works out every morning with some, he plays basketball with them, he routinely gets his hair cut next to a friend who happens to be a Trump fan.
Few - if any - close observers of Utah politics doubted for a moment what President Donald Trump meant in Salt Lake City Monday afternoon when he praised Sen. Orrin Hatch and voiced hope that the seven-term Republican "will serve your state and your country in the Senate for a long time to come." At a time when it is widely assumed that Hatch, 83, will soon announce he is retiring from the Senate next year, the President is clearly hoping the senator will change his mind and thus stop the expected candidacy of the Republican widely considered heir apparent to his seat: Mitt Romney, 2012 Republican presidential hopeful and a sworn enemy of Trump.
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25, 2017, file photo, former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at a rally, in Fairhope, Ala. In the face of sexual misconduct allegations, Moore's U.S. Senate ... .
US weekly Time on Monday announced the 10 finalists for this year's Person of the Year, including North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump. The two leaders were shortlisted along with other people deemed to have most influenced the news during the year.
On December 3, President Trump issued an interesting tweeta not terribly unusual for him, as that's how he communicates with the American people. Just as Ronald Reagan was famous for "going over the heads of the press and speaking directly to the people," Donald Trump uses today's technology to accomplish the same end.
Donald Trump traveled to Utah to officially announce his plans to slash the size of national parks by more than 1,000,000 acres. The president said he was scaling back Barack Obama 's monument policy to hand the power back to the people.
President Donald Trump arrived in Utah on Monday to announce that he is scaling back two sprawling national monuments, a move that is welcomed by the state's top Republican officials but opposed by tribes and environmental groups. Trump traveled west to announce his intention to shrink the Bears Ears and the Grand-Staircase Escalante national monuments.
Saying it was his duty to "reverse federal overreach" by both the Obama and Clinton administrations, President Trump on Monday signed two proclamations to pare down and carve up both the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. At a speech in Salt Lake City, Mr. Trump said previous presidents have greatly abused their power under the century-old Antiquities Act, and stretched the law past its limits in cordoning off millions of acres of land and placing them under government control.
John Dowd, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, claims a president cannot be guilty of obstruction of justice, Axios is reporting . The "president cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under and has every right to express his view of any case," Dowd claimed.
Americans want to know when former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton will be held accountable for the statements she made to the FBI about her email server, especially after the guilty plea entered by former national security adviser Michael Flynn last week and revelations concerning FBI agents, President Donald Trump's counselor, Kellyanne Conway, said Monday. "We know that she lied a lot of times," Conway told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" program.
Lobbing new criticism at the special counsel's Russia investigation, President Donald Trump said Monday he feels "very badly" for former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who last week pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about reaching out to the Russians on the president's behalf. "I think it's a shame," Trump said of Flynn's situation, adding that it's "very unfair" and that Flynn had "led a very strong life."
Former Alabama chief justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at a campaign rally, Nov. 30, 2017 in Dora, Alabama. President Donald Trump endorsed Republican Roy Moore on Monday in next week's U.S. Senate election in Alabama, rebuffing calls by other prominent Republicans that Moore drop out of the race because of accusations that he sexually abused teenage girls four decades ago when he was in his 30s.
President Donald Trump endorsed U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore on Monday, throwing his weight behind the embattled Alabama Republican before a special election next week that has been rocked by allegations of sexual misconduct. FILE PHOTO: Judge Roy Moore participates in the Mid-Alabama Republican Club's Veterans Day Program in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, U.S., November 11, 2017.
In his clearest statement of support yet, President Donald Trump on Monday unequivocally endorsed Roy Moore, the Republican Senate candidate engulfed by sexual misconduct allegations, claiming it was vital for the former judge to win next week's special election in Alabama. Democrats refusal to give even one vote for massive Tax Cuts is why we need Republican Roy Moore to win in Alabama.