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Tax Reform Ready

President Trump and the GOP are celebrating their first major legislative victory.

  Republicans said they’d do it, and they did, successfully overhauling the United States tax code. The bill offers permanent tax cuts for businesses, and smaller, temporary cuts for individual tax rates. Reaction to the reform bill is mirroring how the vote went. Democrats ask how republicans explain adding to the deficit, when the GOP typically favors fiscal conservatism. Republicans…

Passing Tax Reform

A taxing night on Capitol Hill as the tax reform bill bounced from House to Senate and back to the House.

  In another late night Senate vote, the upper chamber passed the tax reform bill down party lines. The House took up the measure earlier on Tuesday in the first round of the congressional volleyball. The bill was immediately sent to the Senate for the final vote, where open debate began once more. The last step of sending the bill…