Evening Edition: Trump seeks 15 percent corporate tax rate, even if it swells the national debt

Showdown looms over money for border wall as budget deadline nears; Holding Obamacare hostage to pay for Trump's wall? Here's the issue with that plan.; The Fix: 4 ways Trump's border wall is already going south on him; The disrupter president and the do-little Congress; Fearing a far-right president in France, European leaders break with tradition and weigh in on election; Trump to issue new order calling into question two decades of national monument designations; U.S. defense chief arrives in Kabul as Afghan defense minister resigns in disgrace; Trump gets on the phone to Asia as another North Korea flash point looms; Warring cousins, a grisly execution; New Orleans removes a tribute to ‘the lost cause of the Confederacy’ — with snipers standing by; Democrats have created their own mess with leaders' conflicting messages about abortion; In Chicago, Obama tells young leaders that 'special interests dominate the debates in Washington'; Video shows 4-year-old girl falling out of a moving church van onto a highway; Researchers have found a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence — in England; A painting stolen by Nazis is up for auction — despite a Jewish family’s demand for its return;   Democracy Dies in Darkness     The day's most important stories   Trump seeks 15 percent corporate tax rate, even if it swells the national debt Sticking to one of his campaign pledges but shattering another, President Trump instructed advisers to drastically cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent. By doing so — but not committing to measures that would offset the revenue loss — Trump is making clear he is putting a priority on cutting taxes over the national debt. By Damian Paletta and Robert Costa  •  Read more » Showdown looms over money for border wall as budget deadline nears President Trump and his top aides pressed congressional Republicans to use the threat of a government shutdown to win funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, an effort that could lead to a standoff with lawmakers in both parties ahead of Friday's deadline to pass a spending bill. By Kelsey Snell and Robert Costa  •  Read more »   Analysis Holding Obamacare hostage to pay for Trump's wall? Here's the issue with that plan. The Trump team has introduced a new strategy to fund the border wall: For every dollar that Congress approves for the wall, Trump will accept a dollar spent on paying insurers to subsidize health care under the Affordable Care Act. By Philip Bump  •  Read more »   The Fix: 4 ways Trump's border wall is already going south on him The political tension could backfire for the president. Trump's insistence on a wall is increasingly doing what some had warned it would do: It's undermining his relationship with Congress and it's putting Republican leaders in a no-win scenario on whether to fund it. By Amber Phillips  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Analysis The disrupter president and the do-little Congress The mismatch between a president who promised to shake up Washington and the slow pace on Capitol Hill is causing tensions as the 100-day mark nears. By Dan Balz  •  Read more »   Fearing a far-right president in France, European leaders break with tradition and weigh in on election The decision to throw support behind pro-Europe candidate Emmanuel Macron represents a gamble for the continent's powers-that-be. Some fear it will only fan the flames of anti-establishment ire that have propelled Marine Le Pen and the far right's rise. By Griff Witte  •  Read more »   Trump to issue new order calling into question two decades of national monument designations The move on Wednesday could upend protections that previous presidents have put in place in Utah and elsewhere across the country. By Juliet Eilperin  •  Read more »   U.S. defense chief arrives in Kabul as Afghan defense minister resigns in disgrace Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived unannounced to assess America's longest war as the Trump administration weighs sending more troops. By Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Sayed Salahuddin  •  Read more »   Trump gets on the phone to Asia as another North Korea flash point looms The president was talking to his counterparts in China and Japan as concerns grew that North Korea could stage a provocative missile or nuclear test Tuesday to mark the anniversary of its military's founding. By Simon Denyer and Anna Fifield  •  Read more »   Warring cousins, a grisly execution In the mountains of western Tunisia, radical Islamists are seeking to spread their ideology and impose control, sowing chaos and cowing villagers with brute violence in a quest for new territories in the wake of defeats and retreats in Iraq and Syria. One evening last fall, the battle led one man to betray his relative. By Sudarsan Raghavan  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   New Orleans removes a tribute to ‘the lost cause of the Confederacy’ — with snipers standing by Fearing reprisals by protestors, masked workers, under darkness and the protection of police snipers, dismantled a monument to white paramilitaries who died battling a mixed-race police force after the Civil War's end. By Avi Selk  •  Read more »   The Fix | Analysis Democrats have created their own mess with leaders' conflicting messages about abortion DNC Chairman Tom Perez said Democrats won't back antiabortion candidates. He apparently didn't talk to Nancy Pelosi. If you're a Democrat, this kind of lack of coordination and party ethos should frighten you. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   In Chicago, Obama tells young leaders that 'special interests dominate the debates in Washington' In his first public appearance since leaving the White House, the former president told young leaders that he had failed to realize his "aspirational" goal of uniting Americans in red and blue states. By Amber Phillips and Juliet Eilperin  •  Read more »   Video shows 4-year-old girl falling out of a moving church van onto a highway A volunteer firefighter, who was driving behind the van in northern Arkansas, pulled over and ran to the girl, carrying her out of the road. The girl, who had unlatched the van's emergency door, suffered a broken jaw, broken teeth and lacerations covering her face. By Lindsey Bever  •  Read more »   Researchers have found a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence — in England No one knew there was any other parchment copy of the document that proclaimed the independence of America's 13 colonies, other than the one at the National Archives in Washington. By Amy B Wang  •  Read more »   A painting stolen by Nazis is up for auction — despite a Jewish family’s demand for its return The woman who owns the painting can't be forced to return it. Under Austrian law, a person who buys a looted painting can't be prosecuted or forced to turn over the artwork if they can show they purchased it in good faith. By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.  •  Read more »           Share Evening Edition:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you signed up for Headlines. For additional free newsletters or to manage your newsletters, click here. We respect your privacy. 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