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Article snippet: MORE’s first year in office had its stumbles, but it also had a number of successes that had the White House and congressional Republicans crowing at the end of the year. While Trump has seen his approval ratings fall, he’s also gone a long way toward meeting a number of his campaign promises, including a pledge to reduce taxes. The tax-cut bill approved by Congress days before Christmas was sweeping in scope and a major victory for a White House that hopes to build on it in Trump’s second year in office. Here’s a look at Trump’s biggest accomplishments of the year. 1. The tax-cut bill Trump capped off 2017 with his first major legislative victory — the passage of the Republicans’ tax-cut bill, which slashes the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent and reduces individual rates as well as implements some key breaks. It’s the biggest tax legislation to be approved by Congress since 1986, and would be significant if that’s all it did. The fact that it also eliminated ObamaCare’s mandate that individuals buy insurance and opens the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling — something several GOP administrations had tried but failed to do — makes it truly historic. 2. Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation to the Supreme Court Trump’s biggest early victory came when the Senate, in April, confirmed Neil Gorsuch to succeed the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. Gorsuch’s appointment marked the end of a bitter struggle between Democrats and Republicans over t... Link to the full article to read more