US House Speaker Mike Johnson. — Bloomberg
WASHINGTON: House Republican leaders took the first step toward enacting trillions of US dollars in tax cuts and raising the nation’s US$36 trillion debt limit, offering a plan that risks rankling quarrelling factions in the party.
The proposal aims to smooth the passage of President Donald Trump’s top legislative priorities: the extension of expiring individual and business taxes passed in 2017, boosting defence and border security spending and cuts to non-defence spending.
