Two hours after the House of Representatives sent the final version of the Trump tax reform plan to the president's desk, President Donald Trump will speak about the bill's passage at what's been labeled "a bill passage event" by the White House.
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As the United Nations general assembly is set to hold a rare emergency session on Thursday to consider a resolution condemning President Trump's recent controversial move to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, American Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley is lashing out, telling member countries that "the US will be taking names".
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress gushed a double whammy of capital-flight-creating rulings this afternoon. The Rand is tumbling on Bloomberg headlines that the ANC is said to seek constitutional changes for land expropriation (from whites) without compensation, but perhaps even more worrisome, the ruling party has decided that the Reserve Bank must be wholly owned by the state:
The House of Representatives is voting for the second time on the final version of the Republican tax-reform plan. If the bill passes and is signed into law by President Donald Trump, it would be the first piece of comprehensive tax reform in 31 years.
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As the House prepares to hold its second vote on the final version of the Republican tax plan, Fox Business and Dow Jones Newswires are reporting that President Donald Trump might wait until early next year to sign the bill once it reaches his desk. His reason? By delaying the signing, Trump would effectively push certain spending cuts to programs like Medicare until 2019.