US Business body reacts to Donald Trump's "beautiful" bill

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  Hello and welcome to World Business Report here on the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Rahul Tandon.

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  Plenty coming up on this edition,

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  we'll look at why defeat for one of the world's most popular football clubs in the world could be dire for its bank balance and why it's game over for those looking to block one of the biggest ever mergers in the gaming sector.

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  But we are going to start the programme by talking about President Trump's tax cutting plan,

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  which was of course passed by the House of Representatives.

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  on Thursday morning.

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  It will now, of course, be debated in the Senate, which also has a Republic majority,

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  and that may decide to amend some of the elements of the bill.

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  But what's in it at the moment?

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  Erin Delmore is our North America business correspondent.

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  It's a huge moment for Republicans, right?

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  But at the same time, now it heads to the Senate,

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  where surely it will be marked up again, changed again.

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  President Trump is trying to use all of this momentum right now,

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  urging senators to get this bill onto his desk so he can sign it as soon as possible.

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  Remember, this is the big, hulking,

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  thousand-plus-page bill that he's calling one big, beautiful bill.

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  And it wraps up so many of his priorities that he campaigned on,

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  whether that's tax cuts or border security or in order to win over hardline conservatives.

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