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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ed Pilkington

Trump and Republicans plot radical policy agenda in one ‘big, beautiful bill’

Man wearing baseball cap looks to side
Donald Trump in Texas in November. Photograph: Brandon Bell/Reuters

Donald Trump is working with top Republicans in Congress to devise a single “big, beautiful bill” that will contain all of his major policy ambitions – including a clampdown on immigration, tax cuts, and increased military spending in an attempt to supercharge his radical agenda as he embarks on a second presidency.

The plan to pile all of Trump’s main policy goals into one mega-bill, against the wishes of some top congressional Republicans, raises the prospect of months of potentially bruising political in-fighting needed to secure its passage. Though the Republicans hold both chambers of Congress, their margin in the House is the slimmest in almost a century.

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