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Grieving

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Amid Mourning, Pressure Mounts on Vegas Police

Alexandra Gurr cries as she lays flowers at a makeshift memorial for victims of a mass shooting in Las Vegas. Pressure mounted Wednesday for Las Vegas police to
explain how quickly they reacted to what would become the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
(AP Photo/John Locher)
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Trump Turns Back to Tax Overhaul; Pitch Aimed at Truckers

By CATHERINE LUCEY personal income tax brackets and emerging crises — including the come levels for his new tax brack-
JOSH BOAK boost the standard deduction. mass shooting in Las Vegas and ets. The outreach to truckers in
Associated Press Trump said a cut to business tax- the hurricane recovery effort in Pennsylvania is an attempt to give
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (AP) — President es would help truckers because Puerto Rico — as well as dramas of a blue-collar appeal to a frame-
Donald Trump pitched his tax plan there will be “more products to his own making, such as his esca- work that outside tax analysts say
as a boost for truckers at an event deliver and more contracts to fill.” lating feud with Sen. Bob Corker, would largely favor the wealthy.
Wednesday in Pennsylvania, say- He also said his plan would ben- R-Tenn., and public tension with About two-thirds of trucking firms
ing, “America first means putting efit middle-class families by lower- Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. are structured as small businesses
American truckers first.” ing rates, creating new jobs and Taxes are the chief legislative pri- in which the profits double as the
Trump appeared before about making it easier for business own- ority for Republicans hungry for owners’ income, what’s com-
a thousand cheering people at ers to pass companies on to their a major legislative achievement. monly known as “pass-through”
an airplane hangar dramatically children. With the 2018 campaign year companies, said Chris Spear, pres-
draped with American flags. Two “So many people have come up looming, GOP lawmakers want ident of the American Trucking As-
big rigs were in the background. to me and said give it to the mid- something to show for their time sociations.
“It will be rocket fuel for our econ- dle class, give it to people who as the majority party, and tax leg- The framework would cut the tax
omy,” Trump said of a plan that need it,” Trump said. islation remains their best hope. rate for these firms to 25 percent
would dramatically cut corporate Trump is diving back into the tax Trump has left it up to Congress from 39.6 percent.
tax rates from 35 percent to 20 fight after weeks in which his at- to fill in many specifics of his plan,
percent, reduce the number of tention has shifted to rapidly which omits details such as the in- Continued on Page 3