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The US Senate has approved a major tax overhaul, bringing the Trump administration one step closer to its aim of slashing taxes for businesses and the wealthy, while delivering mixed changes for the rest of the country. In what would be the largest US tax overhaul since the 1980s, Republicans want to add $1.4 trillion over 10 years to the $20 trillion national debt to finance changes that they say would further boost an already growing economy.
The furious political opposition that faced President Barack Obama at the beginning of his first term was, among other confounding factors, the consequence of a well-known Republican strategy known as "starve the beast." The idea behind the strategy is to rack up an enormous deficit through tax cuts for the super-wealthy and other measures in support of supply-side voodoo economics, thus making it fiscally irresponsible for a subsequent Democratic administration to pass any meaningful legislation due to the accumulated Republican deficits.
Bernie Sanders has earned a spot in the entertainment industry's awards season: He was nominated for a Grammy on Tuesday, a first for the 2016 presidential candidate. Sanders was nominated in the spoken word category for the audio book version of "Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In," along with actor Mark Ruffalo.
President Donald Trump praised the Senate's passage of the Republicans' massive tax overall, saying people are going to be 'very, very happy' with the law. Now that the Senate passed its bill, the next step is for the House to vote Monday to send its tax legislation to conference committee.
As the wait for Sunday's election results has dragged o... . Supporters of presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla gather where police stand guard near the institute where election ballots are being recounted, as they protest what they call electoral fraud in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Frida... .
Maryland caps years of delays, begins sales of medical marijuana under program considered one of the most liberal in the nation for prescribed cannabis. Maryland caps years of delays, begins sales of medical marijuana under program considered one of the most liberal in the nation for prescribed cannabis.
"It is the honor of a lifetime to serve Michigan in the U.S. Congress," he wrote in the Detroit Free Press. "My constituents enabled me to address some of the most important issues of our time.
WASHINGTON The former top FBI official assigned to special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election was taken off that job this summer after his bosses discovered he and another member of Mueller's team had exchanged politically charged texts disparaging President Donald Trump and supportive of Hillary Clinton, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. Peter Strzok, as deputy head of counter-intelligence at the FBI, was a key player in the investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server to do government work as Secretary of State, as well as the probe into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election.
President Trump's team hopes to finish the third round of the congressional debate over tax reform by year's end, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin emphasized Saturday. "I look forward to working with the House and Senate to send legislation to the president's desk this month," Mnuchin said.
Republicans muscled the largest tax overhaul in 30 years through the Senate early Saturday, taking a big step toward giving President Donald Trump his first major legislative triumph after months of false starts and frustration on other fronts.
Nancy Pelosi had a chance to take a stand, but she led the Democratic Party off the moral high ground and took up residence on a moral molehill. Few issues have the opportunity to unify people of both parties more than the belief that men shouldn't abuse their power to sexually abuse women and children.
People are pointing with anger to a provision in the Senate tax bill passed on Saturday that appears to give private jet owners a tax break. The change is actually a technical clarification that prevents operators of private charter flights from being hit with a tax designed for commercial flights.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat and 2020 frontrunner, waded into a congressional fight between two Democrats earlier this month. Gillibrand's endorsement of Marie Newman, who is challenging a "blue dog" incumbent in Illinois, was followed by endorsements from several prominent liberal groups this week .
A veteran FBI counterintelligence agent was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating Russian election meddling after the discovery of an exchange of anti-Trump text messages, a person familiar with the matter said Saturday. The removal of the agent, who also had worked on the investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, occurred this summer.
President Donald Trump walks down the steps of Air Force One at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017. Trump is in New York to attend a series of fundraisers.
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., a member of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, and other Republican senators gather to meet with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on the GOP effort to overhaul the tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. less Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., a member of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, and other Republican senators gather to meet with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on the GOP effort to overhaul the ... more WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats on Friday successfully blocked a provision in the Republicans' sweeping tax bill designed to give a special tax break to a conservative college in Michigan.
The centipede has dropped its heaviest shoe yet. Michael Flynn's plea deal makes explicit that he is cooperating with the special counsel in the Russia investigation.
As the wait for Sunday's election results has dragged o... . Supporters of presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla gather where police stand guard near the institute where election ballots are being recounted, as they protest what they call electoral fraud in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Frida... .
Until today three polls had been conducted in the state since Thanksgiving with strikingly uniform results: Moore +5 , Moore +5, Moore +6 . Which made sense.
Outside his first event, several hundred protesters stood behind barricades along 42nd Street. His motorcade ducked into a side street so he saw some of the action but not most of it.