Trump uses misleading $5.5 trillion tax cut figure to sell GOP law
President Donald Trump  will talk up the tax law during a speech in Nashville on Monday.
In the speech   Trump  will tout "a total of $5.5 TRILLION DOLLARS IN TAX CUTS."
 President Donald Trump  is headed to Nashville on Monday as part of an ongoing attempt to sell the recently passed Republican tax law. But one of the biggest selling points  he 's set to tout paints a misleading picture of the law's effects.
According to excerpts of the speech released prior to its delivery   Trump  plans to tout "a total of $5.5 TRILLION DOLLARS IN TAX CUTS" in the new law that will mostly help "working families  small businesses and FAMILY FARMERS."
But the massive cuts  Trump  cites only account for half the equation.
Adding in those parts of the law  like the cap on the state and local tax deduction  brings the total tax change to a little under $1.5 trillion â a little more than one-quarter of  Trump 's statistic.
Focusing on the gross tax cuts  instead of the overall effects  could be an attempt by  Trump  to sweeten the tax law for a public that has so far rejected the changes.
[TGT] will talk up the tax law during a speech in Nashville on Monday.
In the speech    [TGT] will tout "a total of $5.5 TRILLION DOLLARS IN TAX CUTS. [TGT] 
is headed to Nashville on Monday as part of an ongoing attempt to sell the recently passed Republican tax law. But one of the biggest selling points   [TGT]  's set to tout paints a misleading picture of the law's effects.
According to excerpts of the speech released prior to its delivery    [TGT]   plans to tout "a total of $5.5 TRILLION DOLLARS IN TAX CUTS" in the new law that will mostly help "working families  small businesses and FAMILY FARMERS."
But  [TGT] cites only account for half the equation.
Adding in those parts of the law  like the cap on the state and local tax deduction  brings the total tax change to a little under $1.5 trillion â a little more than one-quarter of  Trump 's statistic.
Focusing on  [TGT] instead of the overall effects  could be an attempt by  [TGT] to sweeten the tax law for a public that has so far rejected the changes.