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Week In Politics: Republicans Pass Sweeping Tax Cuts, Avoid Government Shutdown

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President Trump displays the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul package he had just signed, Friday, Dec. 22, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Trump touted the size of the tax cut, declaring to reporters in the Oval Office before he signed it Friday that "the numbers will speak." (Evan Vucci/AP)
President Trump displays the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul package he had just signed, Friday, Dec. 22, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Trump touted the size of the tax cut, declaring to reporters in the Oval Office before he signed it Friday that "the numbers will speak." (Evan Vucci/AP)

Republicans passed the largest tax cuts in three decades this week, and agreed on a stripped-down funding bill to keep the government running.

ABC News political director Rick Klein (@RickKlein) and Bloomberg News White House correspondent Toluse Olorunnipa (@ToluseO) join Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson and Robin Young to review the week in politics.

This segment aired on December 22, 2017.

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