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Sheldon Whitehouse: “President Trump’s 2017 tax law and Big, Beautiful-for-Billionaires bill handed billionaires and big corporations massive…”

On the recordSeptember 9, 2026
President Trump’s 2017 tax law and Big, Beautiful-for-Billionaires bill handed billionaires and big corporations massive tax breaks on private jets. The Trump administration now says it would be ‘burdensome’ to close the private jet tax loophole because this is an administration hell-bent on using the powers of government to make the ultra-rich even richer, and they don’t care if middle-class taxpayers get stuck with the tab.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Criticizing the Trump administration's tax policies.

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