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News roundup: President Donald Trump falsely claims the tax-reform plans would ‘cost me a fortune’

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Happy Thursday. President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that the Republican tax-reform plans being debated in the House and Senate would “cost me a fortune, this thing, believe me.” That is not true. Nonpartisan analyses of the bills indicate that most of the nation’s biggest earners — the top 0.1 percent — would see tax cuts under either proposal. Based on his 2005 return, The Washington Post estimates Trump could save as much at $42 million.