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Trump Tax Cuts: A Bad Idea With a Bright Future
This is one priority of the president-elect that other Republicans are likely to support, no matter how fiscally irresponsible.
Cloudy with a chance of deficit spending.
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In just over a month, Donald Trump will be the president of the United States. What’s he going to do with that office?
That’s harder to tell than it is with most presidents-elect. Usually, there has been some extended discussion of issues during the campaign, so we have an idea of the main items on our new president’s agenda, and which of them he is likely to tackle first. When George W. Bush came in, we knew that big tax cuts were in store; when President Obama came in, we knew that health-care reform would be a priority.