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U.S. NEWS Thursday 31 augusT 2017
Trump says tax overhaul will ‘bring back Main Street’

By CATHERINE LUCEY benefit corporate America. to restore opportunity then cluding a significant defeat push comes amid an in-
JOSH BOAK Trump said his vision for we must reduce the tax on health care, the stakes tense September workload
Associated Press re-writing the nation’s burden on our companies are high for the White for Congress. While the
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — tax system, one of his key and on our workers,” Trump House and Republican White House has been de-
President Donald Trump campaign pledges, would said in Springfield, Mo. leaders, who face mount- signing a tax plan aimed at
declared Wednesday that unlock stronger econom- Trump chose a Midwest- ing pressure to get points appealing to Republicans,
his push to overhaul the ic growth and benefit ern manufacturing setting on the board before next Trump sought to cast the ef-
nation’s tax system would companies and workers in Springfield to debut his year’s midterm elections. fort in bipartisan terms, call-
“bring back Main Street by alike. He promised that it pitch, a community that is But the effort is already fac- ing upon members of both
reducing the crushing tax would be “pro-growth, pro- known as the birthplace of ing political headwinds. parties to work with him on
burden,” offering a popu- jobs, pro-worker and pro- the Route 66 highway. The White House and Re- the overhaul. “I think Con-
list appeal to a still-forming American.””If we want to After a year without any publican lawmakers have gress is going to make a
tax plan that would heavily renew our prosperity and major legislative wins, in- not finalized a plan and the comeback,” Trump saidq

Trump to Harvey victims: ‘All of America’ grieving with you

Continued on Page 3 “He’d see enough if he
“We are going to get you came along here in a he-
back and operating im- licopter,” Sirianni said on a
mediately,” Trump told a balcony accessible only by
crowd outside a Corpus a 12-foot aluminum exten-
Christi fire station about 30 sion ladder.
miles from where the storm The president, during his
made landfall Friday. stop in Austin, said it was
Trump was eager to get a “sad thing” that the re-
the federal disaster re- covery would be a “long-
sponse right. But he missed term” operation.
clear opportunities to strike His largely upbeat reas-
a sympathetic note for the surances about a speedy
multitudes suffering. The recovery, though, stood in
president did not mention contrast to the more mea-
those who died in the storm sured assessments coming
or those forced from their from emergency manage-
homes. He basked in the ment officials. There’s a
attention of cheering sup- long, difficult road ahead
porters outside the fire sta- in recovering from a storm
tion where officials briefed whose flooding has dis-
him on the recovery. placed tens of thousands,
“What a crowd, what a President Donald Trump, followed by Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., waves before they board Air Force those officials have cau-
turnout,” Trump declared One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, prior to their departure to tioned. Trump’s promise
Springfield, Mo.
before waving a Texas flag (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) of swift action on billions
from atop a step ladder of dollars in disaster aid is
positioned between two to Harvey, mindful of the ing the most devastated anni arrived at his beach at odds with his proposed
firetrucks. “This is historic. political opportunities and areas of a natural disaster house in Rockport, about budget. It would eliminate
It’s epic what happened, risks that natural disasters while recovery is still in the 20 miles outside Corpus the program that helps
but you know what, it hap- pose for any president. early stages, to avoid get- Christi, to assess damage. Americans without flood
pened in Texas, and Texas Trump has been dogged ting in the way or divert- Sirianni said he appreciat- insurance rebuild their
can handle anything.” by low approval ratings ing critical resources. In ed Trump’s gesture and un- homes and cuts grants to
Trump is clearly determined and self-created crises. Texas, residents seemed to derstood why there were help states reduce the risk
to seize the moment and It has long been presiden- understand. Before Trump no plans to take him into of flooding before disaster
show a forceful response tial practice to avoid visit- landed in Texas, Louis Siri- the hardest-hit area. strikes.q
House GOP eyeing $1B disaster funds cut to finance wall

By ALAN FRAM saster relief account is part leaders will move to reverse in homeland security ac- respond on the record to
ANDREW TAYLOR of a massive spending bill it next week as floodwaters counts. messages seeking com-
Associated Press that the House is sched- cover Houston, the nation’s The FEMA cut is the handi- ment.
WASHINGTON (AP) — uled to consider next week fourth-largest city, and tens work of House Appropria- Harvey aid is a fresh addi-
President Donald Trump is when lawmakers return of thousands of Texans tions Committee Chairman tion to an agenda already
promising billions to help from their August recess. have sought refuge in shel- Rodney Frelinghuysen, R- packed with must-do tasks
Texas rebuild from Harvey- The $876 million cut, which ters. N.J. — the major force be- and multiple legislative
caused epic flooding, but is included in the 1,305- There’s only $2.3 billion re- hind a $50 billion-plus 2013 deadlines: Passing a stop-
his Republican allies in the page measure’s home- maining in federal disaster Superstorm Sandy recovery gap spending bill to avert a
House are looking at cut- land security section, pays coffers. package — and Rep. John government shutdown; in-
ting almost $1 billion from for roughly half the cost of The disaster relief cut was Carter, whose home state creasing the government’s
disaster accounts to help Trump’s down payment proposed well before Har- of Texas is suffering badly borrowing authority to
finance the president’s bor- on the U.S.-Mexico border vey and the politically bad from Harvey. prevent a market-quaking
der wall. wall that the president re- optics are sure to lead law- Aides to GOP leadership default on U.S. obligations;
The pending reduction to peatedly promised Mexico makers to do an about offices, the Appropria- and paving the way for a
the Federal Emergency would finance. face, though that would tions Committee and Rep. GOP rewrite of the U.S. tax
Management Agency’s di- It seems sure that GOP create a money crunch Carter did not immediately code. q