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On the recordJanuary 23, 2018
The unusual thing about that tax cut is we usually reserve those stimulus efforts for times when the economy is really in bad shape.
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Chris Van Hollen
Democratic · Maryland

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Van Hollen points out the timing of the tax cut was atypical.

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