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Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is ex­pect­ed to sign his pack­age of tax breaks and spend­ing cuts in­to law Fri­day af­ter his ca­jol­ing pro­duced al­most unan­i­mous Re­pub­li­can sup­port in Con­gress for the do­mes­tic pri­or­i­ty that could ce­ment his sec­ond-term lega­cy.

Against odds that at times seemed im­prob­a­ble, Trump achieved his goal of cel­e­brat­ing a his­toric — and di­vi­sive — leg­isla­tive vic­to­ry in time for the na­tion’s birth­day. Fight­er jets and stealth bombers are to streak the sky over the an­nu­al White House Fourth of Ju­ly pic­nic where Trump plans to sign the bill.

The leg­is­la­tion, the pres­i­dent said, is “go­ing to make this coun­try in­to a rock­et ship. It’s go­ing to be re­al­ly great.” De­moc­rats as­sailed the pack­age as a give­away to the rich that will rob mil­lions more low­er-in­come peo­ple of their health in­sur­ance, food as­sis­tance and fi­nan­cial sta­bil­i­ty.