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The GOP’s tax plan, the likely cause of the Amtrak wreck, Alabama’s black voters, and more
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Tax Bill: The U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass the GOP’s tax proposal only to find that additional changes from the Senate will require another vote on Wednesday. Even so, the bill is expected to become law this week. The $1.5 trillion tax cut is likely to substantially increase the national deficit, which in turn could set the stage for a Republican push to roll back entitlement programs. Yet history suggests that Democrats will be more likely to gain a political advantage.

Investigators’ early findings suggest that the passenger train involved in Monday’s fatal wreck in Washington State was traveling 50 Meanwhile, the new strategy document released by the Trump administration appears to lack a solution for what may well be a pressing security crisis:

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