Washington, May 22, 2025 (AFP) - Republicans eye Thursday vote on Trump's tax cut mega-bill

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Republicans announced Wednesday they will vote early Thursday on US President Donald Trump's sprawling domestic policy mega-bill pairing tax relief with spending cuts that critics say would decimate health care while ballooning the debt. The "One Big, Beautiful Bill Act" would usher into law Trump's vision for a new "Golden Age," achieved through cuts to public services to pay for a 10-year extension of his 2017 tax cuts. But it is dangling by a......

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