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Rich Neal: “I can't wait for the Republican Party to meet that waitress who is making $32,000 a year and tell her in this tax bill…”

On the recordJuly 2, 2025
I can't wait for the Republican Party to meet that waitress who is making $32,000 a year and tell her in this tax bill the Republican Party just gave her 68 cents more a day because that is the reality of what this tax bill is about. We could also say in the next breath, if you made a million dollars last year, you are going to get $96,000. This is a fact-free argument. They are making this argument that the person at the bottom is going to do well in contrast to the person at the top. There is simply no factual basis to that. By the way, the party of fiscal rectitude is borrowing $5 trillion to pay for a tax cut for the wealthiest amongst us.
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Rich Neal
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Criticizing the Republican tax bill and its impact on low-income earners.

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