{"id":304766,"date":"2017-04-23T02:39:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T01:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-to-announce-big-tax-reform-following-congressional-setback\/"},"modified":"2017-04-23T02:39:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T01:39:39","slug":"trump-to-announce-big-tax-reform-following-congressional-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-to-announce-big-tax-reform-following-congressional-setback\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to announce \u2018big tax reform\u2019 following congressional setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump is set to announce a \u201cbig tax reform\u201d as he had promised in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Big TAX REFORM AND TAX REDUCTION will be announced next Wednesday,&#8221; the president announced in a tweet Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>With nearly 100 days in office, Trump has not managed to win passage of a bill he favors despite enjoying the majority.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s proposal to \u201crepeal and replace\u201d Obamacare, President Barrack Obama\u2019s signature healthcare law, recently failed to go through US Congress, leading to an embarrassment for the new administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are moving forward on comprehensive tax reform that cuts tax rates for individuals, simplifies our overly complicated system and creates jobs by making American businesses competitive,\u201d a Trump administration official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure style=\"display:inline-block\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170423\/eb5e2517-fe88-4300-ad69-b95dc608eac4.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Protesters converge outside of the Internal Revenue Service in lower Manhattan to protest tax dollars being spent on the&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/04\/23\/519079\/Trump-to-announce-big-tax-reform\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump is set to announce a \u201cbig tax reform\u201d as he had promised in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. &#8220;Big TAX REFORM AND TAX REDUCTION will be announced next Wednesday,&#8221; the president announced in a tweet Saturday. With nearly 100 days in office, Trump has not managed to win passage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":304767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-304766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}