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Happy Birthday, Tax Cuts!

Is Trump's tax cut helping working people?
Donald Trump celebrates the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

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Donald Trump's most important economic policy turns a year old this week. If the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) were a baby, it still wouldn't be able to talk. But its personality is beginning to show, and there's a big debate over whether it's a problem child.

Democrats hated the TCJA from the start. They called it a scandalous during a time of historic inequality; for the federal budget; and a stimulus when the country didn't need one.

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