SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI – U.S. President Donald Trump turned his populist rhetoric to tax reform on Wednesday, calling for “pro-American” business tax cuts as a way to create jobs and telling Congress that it needs to deliver.
Speaking at a manufacturing company in Springfield, Missouri, Trump called on Democrats to join his tax overhaul effort, which he said would also cut taxes and simplify the sprawling U.S. tax code for the middle class. But he offered few specifics, and tax reform will be an uphill task in Congress.
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