PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP speaks Wednesday during a swearing-in ceremony for interim U.S. Attorney General for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won’t bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package.

The response so far from financial markets has been skeptical as Trump seems unable to trim deficits as promised.

“All of this rhetoric about cutting trillions of dollars of spending has come to nothing — and the tax bill codifies that,” said Michael Strain, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a

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