Trump tweets on Senate tax win: 'Look forward to signing a final bill before Christmas!'

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President Trump posted a tweet early Saturday morning praising Senate Republicans for passing their version of the Republican tax reform plan, including a brief clip of Vice President Mike Pence announcing the legislation's success on the Senate floor:

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He added a second tweet several hours later:

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To make Trump's Christmas deadline, GOP senators will have to reconcile their bill with the version passed by the House in mid-November. That is no small project, as extant differences include the number of tax brackets, whether to keep deductions for state and local taxes paid, and more.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.