WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s big bill in Congress would unleash trillions in tax cuts and slash spending, but also spike deficits by $2.4 trillion over the decade and leave some 10.9 million more people without health insurance, raising the political stakes for the GOP’s signature domestic priority.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Senate Democrats held a news conference Wednesday. Watch in our video player above.
Republican leaders in Congress, determined to muscle the sweeping package forward, had little to say after the analysis released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. GOP senators were heading for an afternoon meeting with Trump at the White House.
But Democrats laboring to halt the march of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act p