Trump Praises GOP Tax Plan: 'It's All About Jobs'
President Donald Trump praised the House Republican tax plan introduced Thursday, saying that "it's all about jobs" and that "we'll make America globally competitive again." "They are going to get it done," Trump told reporters before a meeting with GOP leaders. "It's tax cuts. It's tax reform. "And we added the word jobs, because it's all about jobs," he said. "We are going to have tremendous numbers of jobs pouring in. "You are going to see numbers and growth — and you'll see jobs and you'll see really wages going up. "Something we are seeing now is, ... Read More
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Trump: DOJ Must Investigate Hillary Clinton
President Trump took to his newly reactivated Twitter page Friday morning to tout revelations from a key Democratic Party insider about Hillary Clinton’s alleged backroom deals and to call for the Justice Department to launch an investigation into a series of scandals touching upon the party and its 2016 stand bearer. “Everybody is asking why the Justice Department (and FBI) isn’t looking into all of the dishonesty going on with Crooked Hillary & the Dems,” Trump tweeted early Friday. “New Donna B book says she paid for and stole the Dem Primary. What about the deleted E-mails, Uranium, Podesta, the Server, plus, plus…” The president was referring to ... Read More
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GOP Looks To Make 20 Percent Corporate Tax Rate Permanent
House Ways And Means Chairman Kevin Brady said it will likely take congressional Republicans “several steps” to reach their goal of permanently lowering the corporate tax to 20 percent. The Texas Republican told reporters Wednesday, just ahead of the release of the House GOP’s tax reform legislation, the party aims to make the reduction permanent, but it would take some maneuvering to comply with the upper chamber’s legislative hurdles. “So, that’s our goal. And I think it’s going to take several steps in the end and through the process to achieve that,” he told reporters. “We have as you know in reconciliation those ... Read More
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GOP’s Tax Bill Cancels $23 billion in Credits Claimed by Illegal Immigrants
The new GOP tax overhaul would strip illegal immigrants of the ability to claim several major tax credits, saving the government $23.1 billion over the next decade, according to the bill’s authors. For years Republicans have complained that despite a general ban on taxpayer benefits flowing to illegal immigrants, the IRS has allowed them to collect the child tax credit, the American Opportunity Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Efforts to shut down those claims have been tried in the House but have never cleared Congress. But the new tax overhaul tries again, calling for taxpayers to have to submit work-eligible Social Security numbers in order to ... Read More
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Donna Brazile SLAMS Debbie, Obama For Running DNC Into The Ground
Interim Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Donna Brazile placed blame for the party’s financial woes squarely on former President Barack Obama and Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in a Thursday column, excoriating the pair for handing over complete control of the party to the Clinton campaign almost a year before she secured the nomination. Soon after taking over as interim chair, Brazile set out to determine whether the DNC had improperly assisted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in securing the party’s nomination, as leaked internal emails suggested. She quickly determined that the DNC was in serious financial peril and the former chair, Wasserman Schultz, had ... Read More
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