I am introducing a bill with mandatory funding, so that the funding lasts year by year by year, so that the IRS can boost tax enforcement for wealthy individuals and for giant corporations who are some of the biggest tax cheats.

So I think the conclusion we can draw is that strengthening third-party information reporting would obviously help people file their taxes more easily and more accurately.

The top 1 percent failed to report, I have heard, more than a fifth of their income--you are saying maybe as much as half--and more than a third of all unpaid Federal income taxes.

It broke my heart, and it made me deep-down furious. ... He didn’t need a plan. He didn’t have to have a strategy to deal with this.

I think Americans have had it with the Republicans on taxes, the tax cuts that went to the billionaires, and now just understanding this system is not working. It`s a rigged system that works for those at the top.

Tax reform is just about choices. We can let our roads and bridges crumble, not upgrade broadband, make no investments in child care or getting lead out of drinking water, and let rich people pay tax rates at half the rate as everyone…

Look, the debate, yes, it is important, but it is important because, as Democrats, we need to deliver. We made promises in `18. We made promises in `20. We said, you put us in control in the Senate, you put us in control in the House, you…

We can’t lose hope, because the only way they make change is we get back up tomorrow and we get back in the fight. We persist.

So, here’s the part to remember. And that is, who is out of step here? When we talk about childcare, it’s Democrats, Republicans, independents, all of us need childcare.

You know, I think of it this way. Look at all that has happened in the last year. You talked about the pandemic, a racial reckoning, an armed insurrection. And we got a new president. We passed an historic Rescue Plan.

It is striking that a private company were the only ones who had the power to stop the threat of Donald Trump. Not the FBI, not the security agencies who we pay a lot of tax money to.