Trump Bends Congress to His Will on Spending, Tax Cut Agenda

Budget Would Explode Deficit: Rep. DelBene
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President Donald Trump is bending Congress to his will, hobbling minority Democrats with an everything-at-once strategy and rallying fractious Republicans behind his politically risky tax cut plan and billionaire Elon Musk’s cost-cutting crusade.

That’s the backdrop for Trump’s scheduled address to Congress on Tuesday, five weeks into his second term and just over a week before a March 14 US funding deadline that would ordinarily serve as a point of political leverage for the opposition party.