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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ariana Baio

How Republicans could pay for Trump agenda and how it could hit your wallet

President Donald Trump’s lofty agenda to tackle immigration, cut taxes across the board and reduce federal spending means Congress will need to find creative ways to fund his agenda while scaling back costs, and some of those ideas could cost American taxpayers.

Taxing people who use the gym at work, adding requirements to welfare beneficiaries and revoking tax deductions from students are just some of the ideas pitched in a 50-page list of ideas that the House Budget Committee circulated, according to Punchbowl News.

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