The fiscal year 2018 budget proposal... includes $3.6 trillion in tax cuts with three-quarters of that going to the top 1 percent of Americans.
Jeff Merkley: “The fiscal year 2018 budget proposal... includes $3.6 trillion in tax cuts with three-quarters of that going to the top…”
On the recordJanuary 31, 2017
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Describing the budget proposal's disproportionate tax cuts favoring the wealthiest Americans.
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