President Donald Trump says his administration will ask Congress to pass payroll tax relief and other quick measures as a public health and economic maelstrom brought on by the coronavirus drew closer to him personally.

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Thanks to the expiration of a payroll tax cut, every working American will have smaller paychecks in 2013.

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WASHINGTON — When last seen in Washington, House Republicans were furious with their own leader, Speaker John Boehner, and angry with their Senate Republican brethren over how the showdown over the Social Security tax cut turned into a year-end political ...

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WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiations over a bill extending a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits can begin as soon the Senate rejects a version the House approved despite a White House veto threat, the Senate’s top Democrat said Wednesday. Senate ...

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MANCHESTER, N.H. — President Barack Obama, visiting the home of the nation’s first presidential primary, urged Republicans to support a payroll tax cut next week. Obama argued Tuesday that a failure to extend the tax breaks would hurt middle-class families ...

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WASHINGTON — Nervous that Social Security seems under siege from all sides, congressional liberals on Wednesday proposed raising the payroll tax that funds the program, but only for people earning more than $250,000 a year. The legislation is designed to ...

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WASHINGTON — Typical workers would get an extra $1,500 in their paychecks next year under a plan by President Barack Obama to expand a payroll tax cut that is scheduled expire at the end of the year. Higher paid workers ...

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