With President Trump promising historic
tax cuts this year, the White House said
Wednesday
it’s counting on spurred job growth and budget cutting to stem a
continued rise in deficits.
“One of the best ways to get the national debt down is to grow the
economy,” said White House press secretary Sean Spicer. “The more
the economy is growing — the more we can get it [between] 3 [percent
and] 5 percent — the more the deficit goes down.” Mr. Trump
hinted broadly during a meeting with House Republicans this week that
the tax-cut plan is ...
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Secretary
of State Rex W.
Tillerson will attempt to infuse new energy into the vast international
coalition battling the Islamic State later this month by hosting senior
officials from the 68 countries in the Trump administration’s first
major stab at multinational diplomacy. The State Department said Thursday
that the goal will be to “increase the momentum of the campaign” against the Islamic State through ... Read
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Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell stumped Thursday for House Republican leadership’s American Health Care Act at a press event, saying, “There’s a lot
to like about it.” “It repeals a significant number of taxes on the American people, [and] Republicans usually like repealing
taxes,” McConnell said, in a jab at conservative lawmakers who are balking at the ... Read More |
Illegal
immigration across the southwest border plummeted in the weeks after
President Trump took office, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly
announced
Wednesday,
calling the drop an early sign that Mr. Trump’s get-tough policies are
working. In addition to a drop in the number of illegal
immigrants nabbed while attempting to cross, Mr. Kelly said, they have
seen a dramatic spike in the ...
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