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January 2, 2018

Trump Lauds Tax Cuts, Arctic Drilling in Exclusive New Year's Gala
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President Trump rang in the new year with his son Barron and first lady
Melania at Trump's Mar-a-Lago golf resort in Florida, where club members
paid $600 apiece for a chance to join the president for a dinner gala.
Speaking briefly to reporters outside the party, Trump boasted about
Republican tax cuts for the wealthy and opening up ANWR-the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge-to oil and gas drilling.

President Donald Trump: "We're off to a very good start, as you know,
with the great tax cuts and ANWR and getting rid of the individual
mandate, which was very, very unpopular, as you know. But we are going
to have a tremendous year."



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