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World Service,20 Dec 2017,26 mins

Trump: Tax Bill "Making America Great Again"

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Donald Trump is expected to sign his first major legislative achievement, the biggest rewrite of the US tax code in a generation, in the coming days. Hosting Republican leaders at the White House, he said: "We are making America great again," after the Senate followed the House of Representatives in passing the tax bill. Eric Toder, co-director of the Washington think-tank the Tax Policy Centre, explains more about what the bill means for businesses and ordinary tax payers, and get reaction from Wall Street from Mark Kepner of Themis Trading. Also on the programme; a row between Poland and the EU, a major blow for Uber, and why Swedes are fighting to maintain the perfect work life balance. Picture: Demonstrators against the bill in New York took to Wall Street. Credit EPA.

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