Repeal and replace the Trump tax cuts

That's the best way to make good on the president's new middle-class tax cut pledge

President Trump.
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Bad news for shopaholics already looking forward to having some extra cash for Black Friday: There is a zero percent chance President Trump will cut middle-class taxes by 10 percent after the November elections. And if you just read the preceding sentence, then you've probably given the idea about as much thought as Trump did before blurting out that $2 trillion promise.

Congressional Republicans were sure surprised — maybe because there are no plans on Capitol Hill to make Trump's middle-class tax pledge happen. Trump Tax Cut 2.0 is in no way a serious policy proposal. It's total vaporware.

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James Pethokoukis

James Pethokoukis is the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he runs the AEIdeas blog. He has also written for The New York Times, National Review, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and other places.