US REPUBLICANS STRUGGLE TO FIND UNITY ON TAXES IN TRUMP 'GOLDEN AGE'

Barely a month after predicting a new "golden age" under President Donald Trump, congressional Republicans are struggling to move forward on the president's tax-cut agenda, despite their control of both the Senate and House of Representatives.

House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a plan that would cut taxes by about $4.5 trillion over a decade, raise the federal government's debt ceiling by $4 trillion - clearing the way for the nation's liabilities to exceed $40 trillion - and find $2 trillion in cost cuts over a decade in mandatory spending programs. While the plan did not specify which programs would be targeted, they could include the Medicaid health program for low-income Americans and Social Security and Medicare for the elderly.

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