A ‘tsunami of need’ feared as US House close to final vote on Trump tax bill

US lawmakers teed up a final vote on Donald Trump’s marquee tax and spending bill for Thursday morning after bruising Republican infighting nearly derailed the centerpiece of the president’s domestic agenda. While Lawmakers and citizens alike are waiting anxiously for the result, advocates for the USA’s most vulnerable are voicing grave concerns over the text’s proposed reduction to assistance programmes to offset its tax cuts.