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Will tax bill help or hurt GOP in 2018?

It depends on who's talking; as Congress ends a year marked mostly by gridlock and dysfunction, a new, sharp divide has emerged between the two parties

Published Sun, Dec 24, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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    Washington

    A COUPLE with two children from Indiana, where Democratic Senator Joe Donnelly faces a difficult re-election next year, explain to the audience that with combined wages of US$73,000, they stand to save US$2,000 under the Republican tax cuts enacted Wednesday.

    A single mother with one child from North Dakota, where Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp is in similar straits as Mr Donnelly, describes how much more of her US$41,000-a-year salary she can keep.

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