as in trio
a group of three
that summertime trifecta for meteorologically induced misery: hazy, hot, and humid
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Red trifecta states that don't have budget shortfalls, states like Utah and Idaho, have already been trying to offer broad tax cuts in the past years, such as income tax rate reductions.
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Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Republicans are entering the 119th Congress with confidence and high aspirations after securing a governing trifecta in Washington and are hoping to implement a wide series of priorities that have been on the backburner while President Joe Biden was in office.
—Austin Denean, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2025
But many reference the trifecta’s first double play turned as Sept. 15, 1902.
—Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
No one can be surprised that Republicans are hoping to exploit their Washington trifecta — the White House and majority control of the House and Senate — by implementing vast federal budget cuts in order to save their 2017 tax cuts from expiration.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
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Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Republicans are entering the 119th Congress with confidence and high aspirations after securing a governing trifecta in Washington and are hoping to implement a wide series of priorities that have been on the backburner while President Joe Biden was in office.
—Austin Denean, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2025
But many reference the trifecta’s first double play turned as Sept. 15, 1902.
—Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
No one can be surprised that Republicans are hoping to exploit their Washington trifecta — the White House and majority control of the House and Senate — by implementing vast federal budget cuts in order to save their 2017 tax cuts from expiration.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
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