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Rosa DeLauro: “Under the Republican tax law, nearly all the tax cuts are going to the top 1 percent and corporations.”

On the recordFebruary 26, 2019
Under the Republican tax law, nearly all the tax cuts are going to the top 1 percent and corporations.
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Rosa DeLauro
Democratic · Connecticut

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Claim that tax cuts disproportionately benefit the wealthy.

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