Evening Edition: With tax bill awaiting final passage, GOP places a big bet on midterms
Trump is not on the 2018 ballot, but White House plans full-on campaign for GOP candidates One chart explains how taxpayers would ultimately pay for tax cuts to corporations
Assuming no last-minute hitches, the legislation as enacted and signed by President Trump would represent a significant achievement for a party that has struggled all year to convert power to productivity. Whether it will translate politically as they hope is a far different question.
The president's aides have met with 116 political hopefuls in recent months, senior White House officials said. The president has told advisers he wants to travel extensively and hold rallies. The strategy carries risks for a historically unpopular commander in chief and could help drive angry Democrats to the polls.
The GOP bill aims to cut corporate taxes in perpetuity, under the theory that to do anything less would be to create uncertainty for businesses. But to do so and still have the bill not be a money loser after a decade, extra funds have to be raised somehow.
Republicans argue most middle-class families will get sizable benefits through their tax plan. That's true, but the middle class and poor are unlikely to see nearly as large of a benefit as the wealthiest Americans. And the proposal will drive up debt, costing $1 trillion or more.
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Aerial photos showed the blaze was about 40 percent contained, a fire official said. But the risk remains high for people living near the foothills of Montecito — home to a number of celebrities, including Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres.
The freshman lawmaker, a Nevada Democrat, is the seventh member of Congress felled by such accusations since October. He said the allegations, which he denies, were "a distraction from a fair and thorough discussion of the issues in a reelection campaign."
A group of entertainment executives formed the commission to combat the kind of sexual misconduct that recent revelations have shown to be pervasive in Hollywood.
For many years, saturated and trans fats were regarded as the big dietary villains. While some fats are unhealthy, experts now believe it is wiser to focus on cutting back sugar than on paring fats.
As word spread of Honey and Barry Sherman's deaths in Toronto's North York neighborhood, family members, neighbors and people who had been touched by the couple's philanthropy found themselves poring over the final weeks of their lives.
Instead of "science-based" or "evidence-based," the suggested phrase is "CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes," one analyst attending a meeting with senior officials said.
The 13-year-old came down with a cold on Christmas and complained of a headache. Days later, his pediatrician suspected a sinus infection and prescribed antibiotics. Then his mother returned home to find a team of paramedics manually trying to resuscitate the teen.
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