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US President Donald Trump has signed into law a sweeping overhaul of the US tax code, two days after the Republican plan was adopted by Congress in a major political victory.
Making good on a vow to push through the tax cuts before Christmas, Trump endorsed the bill shortly before departing for a year-end break at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, pulling forward a formal signing initially planned for January.
Trump this week celebrated his first major legislative victory since taking office a year ago as Congress passed the 1.5 trillion dollars overhaul, set to impact every corner of the economy through dramatic tax cuts for corporations and temporary reductions for individuals.
TRUMP’S LEAST POPULAR PRESIDENT EVER
The tracker from data-centric website FiveThirtyEight pegged Trump’s average approval rating Saturday at just 37.1 percent. Gallup’s most recent poll Thursday pegged his support at just 36 percent, for instance, while finding 58 percent disapproved of the president’s performance. A CNN survey this week similarly had him at just 35 percent. A poll from Lucid this week found Trump’s approval had sunk even further, all the way to 32 percent. To put that in perspective, at this point in his first term President Barack Obama had an approval rating of about 50 percent, which wasn’t stellar but still at least a dozen percentage points better than where Trump stands.
