Republicans are getting cold feet over massive tax bill. Here’s how Trump hopes to close the deal.

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President Donald Trump’s push to pass his massive tax-and-spending bill by July 4 has led to a standoff within the Republican Party, with the White House promising it will trigger growth and prosperity and a GOP-led Congress increasingly nervous it will blow out the deficit while angering voters over cuts to Medicaid.

With time ticking down, the administration has rolled out

a new glossy economic forecast aimed squarely at its party’s fiscal skeptics as even loyal Republicans are balking at the bill’s sheer scale.