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The Latest: Trump says Democrats want ‘MASSIVE tax increase’

In this Sept. 27, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks in Indianapolis. Trump promised Americans “the largest tax cut in our country’s history,” but there’s not much in Trump’s plan to help low-income households. One independent analysis says low-income families would save about $60 a year. Another says their incomes would go up less than 1 percent. Congressional Republicans say the critiques are premature because the plan is incomplete.(AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
In this Sept. 27, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks in Indianapolis. Trump promised Americans “the largest tax cut in our country’s history,” but there’s not much in Trump’s plan to help low-income households. One independent analysis says low-income families would save about $60 a year. Another says their incomes would go up less than 1 percent. Congressional Republicans say the critiques are premature because the plan is incomplete.(AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on President Donald Trump

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6:50 a.m.

President Donald Trump is charging that congressional Democrats “want MASSIVE tax increases & soft, crime producing borders.”

In a series of tweets posted early Wednesday, the president said that Republicans, instead, advocate “the biggest tax cut in history & the WALL.”