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White House pushes tax cut to aid virus-hit economy NewsColony Donald Trump has made an opening bid to Congress to cut payroll taxes until the end of the year, despite Democratic objections, as the administration launched talks with Congress on a stimulus package to shield the economy from the coronavirus outbreak. Larry Kudlow, the director of the White House National Economic Council, said Mr Trump had raised the plan for a payroll tax cut, lasting beyond the November election, as the centrepiece of his economic response to the spreading disease, during a lunch with Republican senators on Tuesday.  At a White House briefing later in the day, Mr Kudlow said administration officials were still working out the details of the package, but payroll tax relief was “probably the most important, powerful piece of this” and would deliver “a big growth pay-off”.  Mr Trump himself did not appear at the press conference, despite having said on Monday that he would do so to...