An nation defined by its people. And disneys donald if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, we wonder what the president makes of this . Get in touch with us using the hashtag beyond 0ne hundred days. Hello and welcome im katty kay in new york and Christian Fraser is in london. Donald trump has secured the first big legislative achievement of his presidency. For the First Time SinceRonald Reagan was in Office America has overhauled its wildly complicated tax system. But its a triumph republicans secured without any buy in from democrats and with a plan that polls suggest is historically unpopular. Critics say this bill will increase inequality in america and expand the us debt. Mr trump says it will boost growth and benefit everybody. An historic victory for the American People. It will go through the final passage today in the house. And the congressmen and women and the senate will be coming over the republican senate. Unfortunately, the democrats dont like to see tax cutting. They like to see tax increases. We can now speak to democratic congressman Joaquin Castro who joins us live from capitol hill. Democrats voted, all of you, against the tax reform bill but President Trump says that democrats always vote against tax cuts. Well like the American People, and you mentioned the opinion polls showing the American People are mostly against this tax bill, we realised it is a sham. That 83 of the benefits on this tax cut goes to the top 1 in this tax cut goes to the top 1 in this country. To the very wealthy. Most of the benefits also go to corporations, the Corporate Tax cuts are permanent, tax cuts for individual americans are not. So for many reasons this is just a very raw deal and a bad dealfor the American People. So under this tax plan Corporate Tax is brought more in line with Corporate Tax rates in other western countries. American companies will bring a lot of money back on shore to the us and may invest that injobs, back on shore to the us and may invest that in jobs, capital infrastructure, that would be a good thing for American Workers . That is the theory and the hope but at the same time right now the United States corporations basically are doing better than ever before. The stock market is higher than ever. And so would question the timing and the wisdom of such a steep Corporate Tax cut right now. That with this bill overall would add summer between 145 trillion and 2 trillion to the deficit, which is already at 20 trillion of debt. So again it was a poorly planned and poorly executed tax bill. Incorporated in this is the repeal of the 0bamacare individual mandate. Does that mean 0bamacare individual mandate. Does that mean 0bamaca re practically speaking individual mandate. Does that mean 0bamacare practically speaking is 110w 0bamacare practically speaking is now dead . I would not say 0bamacare is dead, but certainly it strikes a blow to the Affordable Care act but most importantly a blow to the American People because this will likely lead to an increase in premiums, individual premiums for americans. So that will hurt eve ryo ne americans. So that will hurt everyone at every economic class. Thank you very much indeed. Lets get reaction from Grover Norquist hes the president of the Advocacy Group americans for tax reform and joins me now. Is this bill going to make President Trump richer . Well it is going to make the American Economy stronger and the good news is it cuts taxes on all americans, every income group will see a lower tax rate. You asked about the tax that 0bamacare has on people who do not want 0bamacare, 6. 6 million americans in 2015 were penalised, a 700 tax, penalising them because they did not want to buy 0bamacare. And all of those people will no longer be assaulted by the government every year, and penalised because they do not buy 0bamacare. 80 of people hit by the 0bamacare. 80 of people hit by the 0bamaca re tax 0bamacare. 80 of people hit by the 0bamacare tax burden less than 50,000 a year so that is one of the taxes that 0bama put in that hurt politically lower income people. We have not got rid of all of them but this we did get rid of and we also double the individual and couples standard deduction, the first 24,000 and buy a couple has a 0 tax rate. I know the democrats say it is all about millionaires but the problem is every two weeks for the rest of this year americans will see more money in their pay cheques and they will get tired of that untruth. Let me ask about the prospects for American Growth under this tax plan because one of the big premises of the tax plan is that by cutting taxes on corporations they will bring the money back to the United States and the Economic Growth rate will increase. But there are several surveys suggesting that American Workers will only feel about 20 of that tax cut to corporations and the rest will go to shareholders in a Share Buy Back and dividends to their shareholders and they will not actually investing capital or by increasing wages. They willjust keep it for the corporation, for their shareholders. Well half of americans are in the stock market so with individual retirement accounts, pensions, even people with governmentjobs, their pensions are backed up by the stock market. But half of americans directly in the stock market have direct ownership through their retirement plans that they own. And they will see every month, they will get a letter saying that your life savings have just increased. And because capital is so fluid it goes to where it is treated best. Where it is not taxed as heavily. We used to scare capital away from the us, we have a largely free economy but we will be attracting a lot more investment not just from American Companies overseas but from around the world. Because if you are a dollar in the us you get to keep 79 cents and not 65 as we do now. One of the 12 republicans who voted against the bill yesterday was the chair of the House Appropriations committee, an influential committee on the hill. He said the people of newjersey already carry an extremely heavy tax burden, they need and deserve tax cuts and this will lead to tax increases for far too many hard working new increases for far too many ha rd working new jersey increases for far too many hard working newjersey families. How do you respond . Well he has it backwards, a number of states have abusively high income taxes, state income taxes and property taxes. New jersey is the poster child for that problem, newjersey, new york city, some cities in california. Well were no longer having other states subsidise your high income taxes on property taxes. Almost all americans are property taxes. Almost all americans a re covered property taxes. Almost all americans are covered but maybe 5 of the population live in very high tax districts. What is going to happen is people in newjersey said going to start caring how the city spends its money and that is why the Public Sector unions are not happy, why the liberal democrats are not happy and it is incompetent governors and corrupt mayors who are going to have to change their ways or get voted out of office. Thank you very much. This has caused a lot of controversy, youve seen it here in the us and is all centres on the fundamental issue of income inequality. This is a time when richer people are taking a bigger share of wealth and poorer people are getting left all across the western world. And there has been criticism yesterday from the United Nations saying that the american tax bill will increase that divide between rich and poor. Half of americans have their money in the stock market as we had but have to not. And which health does not have Pension Plans invested in the stock market, that is poorer americans and critics of the bill say they will suffer underneath it. Conservatives in this country would save the rich have never paid more tax than now. But that aside how either democrats going to see this, see this as a win win . That is what theyve said what theyve said to me but they said if republicans had not passed the bill it wouldve been a win because President Trump would have not had any major legislation but because the bill is polling so badly amongst people at the moment they feel it will galvanise voters as pa rt feel it will galvanise voters as part of the trump agenda and again they will keep pressing for the next eight months that this is a bill that increases inequality for middle class families. Lets move onto other news. The polish president has signed into lawjudicial reforms which the eu believes will undermine the independence of the countrys judiciary. Earlier in the day the European Commission threatened to strip poland of its Voting Rights within the eu. The reforms in poland sparked widescale protest. They hand control of the Judicial Council that nominates judges in poland to the governing law and justice party. They also strengthen the president s influence over the supreme court. Catalans will go to the polls on thursday in regional elections. The vote will determine whether the majority want to stay part of spain or be independent. The crisis was triggered by an unauthorised referendum in october after which, the Catalan Government declared independence. Spain dissolved the Regional Government and imposed direct rule. The European Court ofjustice has ruled that uber, is a transport firm and should be regulated like any other taxi company. The Company Maintains its a Digital Information provider that connects passengers with drivers. Experts say the judgement could have implications for other firms in whats known as the gig economy. President trump has threatened to cut off Financial Aid to countries that go against the us in a United Nations vote onjerusalem. The Un General Assembly will on thursday consider a resolution. Earlier, Us Ambassador to the United Nations, nikki haley, said she will be taking names of countries that vote to reject Donald Trumps recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. Then the president reiterated it. They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, were watching those votes. Let them vote against us. Well save a lot. We dont care. 24 carat trump the issue of Financial Aid is complicated, something that the president does not like something many republicans think should be smaller. Most Financial Aid goes through congress through the Appropriations Committee and is not actually in the remit of the president to wipe it out at the stroke of a pen. Do you think this will make suddenly people who are going to vote against the american position at the un tomorrow say ok, we will vote with President Trump . No, he wants to be seen to be backing down in the face of bullying which essentially it is, in the face of us strength. Certainly countries in the middle east will not back down or stop they did not back down earlier in the week in the Security Council with the us will the vote. 190 odd countries tomorrow will have the vote because the palestinians saw the us veto i want to vote in the general assembly. Some smaller countries are supposed to bend on us aid and maybe will think twice but the bigger countries, i do not think so. The bigger countries, i do not think so. I would not be surprised that if they voted against america President Trump would say the world does not like my position, it must be the right one. The eus chief negotiator Michel Barnier says a transition after brexit will help both europe and the uk adjust to the new relationship. But mr barnier stressed the transition should be time limited ending in december 2020. The deadline set by the commission is shorter than the two years the british Prime Minister had initially envisaged. Mr barnier said he expected the uk would eventually move to a deal similar to that signed by canada. But not with a Free Trade Agreement in financial services. In response mrs may said mr barnier was setting out his opening position. Heres the uks Political Editor laura kuenssberg. She made it this far. The Prime Minister leaving her house today for work. Still in number ten after a year when that did not always looks certain. Are you looking forward to a break, Prime Minister . No easy answers on how governments biggestjob, how we leave the eu. Can the government have the trade deal ready before we leave . That is what we are working to and that is what i believe we can do. Everybody wants to know on what basis they are going to be operating in the future. There are big doubts in brussels about that, and the tories expectation that it will take about two years to make the changes we need after brexit, a transition, and there is nothing surprising about the European Union getting its arguments in early. The chief negotiator saying today we would have to stick to all of the rules during transition and that period would have to be over by the end of 2020, earlier than she believes. It is notjust the government, labour thinks two years is about right. We need at least two years. We need clarity about what that transition deal means and i think membership of the Customs Union and Single Market for that period but there needs to be more flexibility. But dont be fooled, there is no real outbreak of christmas cheer between the two main parties. Last year the Prime Minister told the radio times that on Christmas Day she likes to prepare and cook her own goose. Laughter. In the spirit of christmas, can i suggest you heard that in order to extract the maximum pleasure from the messyjob of stuffing her goose that she names it either michael or boris. The applause gave the chancellor time to help out the Prime Minister with her own punch line. I think i will have to resist the temptation to call the goosejeremy. It was Prime Ministers questions, not the christmas panto. But for theresa mays party at least, the end of the year has brought a little cheer. Joining us now is our favourite brexit duo, the conservative nigel evans who voted for brexit, and the labour mp Seema Malhotra who voted remain. Good tidings to you both, lovely to see you. As you head off into the christmas recess, honestly did you think that the first phase would be done and dusted by now and did you expect theresa may to be sitting on the front bench today . Well as we approach the season of goodwill, we re approach the season of goodwill, were not quite out of this place yet, we have boats taking a slate into the night tonight. And i think there has been strong debate today in parliament. It is something that im struck by today, theresa may is getting a big law more for all the long grass she would have to deal with next year because it is clear that shes managed to kick a lot of stuff into the long grass. Were not clear what will happen with the Customs Union, with ireland, whether the agreement last week, the joint report, is going to be legally binding. Because david davis seemed to change his mind after the agreement was reached. So theresa may i think i stumbled to the end of the year but the idea that she goes out on a high is i think something to be believed. It is not where theresa may is and i think that she wishes she was in a very different place and probably is quite grateful that christmas is coming. There was an audible sigh of relief in brussels last week when the first phase was completed. But today we heard from Michel Barnier that he wa nts to heard from Michel Barnier that he wants to cut short the transition to december 2020. Can we get everything donein december 2020. Can we get everything done in that amount of time . M december 2020. Can we get everything done in that amount of time . It will give us focus at least. Im just hoping that if he wants to cut short the transition period to the end of 2020, that that will mean we cut the amount of money that we were paying to stay in the