Republicans Passed Legislation Preventing Tax Hikes on Working Americans While Democrat Leaders Are Embracing the Far Left
THIS CONGRESS, REPUBLICANS WERE HARD AT WORK MAKING SURE AMERICANS DID NOT INCUR A MASSIVE TAX HIKE AT THE HANDS OF DEMOCRATS
- Had the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) expired at the end of 2025, American families and workers would have faced a more than $4 trillion tax hike. Instead, thanks to Republicans’ Working Families Tax Cuts law, “97% of filers received a tax cut this past filing season.” (U.S. Department of the Treasury: New Analysis: The Working Families Tax Cuts Delivers the Largest Share of Tax Relief to American Families and Workers – 6/2/26; U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: Working Families Tax Cuts – accessed 9/11/26)
- A family of four making $80,000 would have seen a $1,700 tax increase if the TCJA expired. (Tax Foundation: Tax Calculator: How the TCJA’s Expiration Will Affect You – 3/12/24)
- The child tax credit would have returned to $1,000 per child, down from the TCJA level of $2,000. (Bloomberg Government: Will Trump and Congress Extend TCJA Tax Cuts? – 2/20/25)
- The standard deduction, which nearly 90% of taxpayers claim, would have been cut roughly in half. Instead, Republicans’ Working Families Tax Cuts law made it permanent and larger. (Tax Foundation: Nearly 90 Percent of Taxpayers Are Projected to Take the TCJA’s Expanded Standard Deduction – 9/26/18)
- “Congress boosted it by $750, to $15,750 for single filers; and by $1,500, to $31,500 for married couples filing jointly.” (CNN: Why federal tax refunds may be bigger than usual – 1/26/26)
- “Over 127 million filers (90% of all tax filers) have claimed the permanently doubled standard deduction, simplifying tax filing for millions across America.” (U.S. Department of the Treasury: New Analysis: The Working Families Tax Cuts Delivers the Largest Share of Tax Relief to American Families and Workers – 6/2/26)
- Every single Democrat voted against this historic tax relief, and they continue to call the Working Families Tax Cuts law a “scam.” (H.R. 1: Roll Call Vote #372 – 7/1/25; Senate Democrats: Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Slamming President Trump’s Disastrous Tax Polices Ahead Of His Visit To Las Vegas – 4/16/26)
AS CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS WERE FIGHTING TO RAISE TAXES ON AMERICANS, PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISTS MOVED THEIR PARTY EVEN FURTHER LEFT
- “What is true: the Democratic Party’s progressive wing is clearly ascendant.” (Punchbowl News: AM: The left strikes back – 8/5/26)
- “The DSA [Democratic Socialists of America] counts just two members in Congress but is on track to see its presence on Capitol Hill at least quadruple next year.” (The Washington Post: This not-so-secret document is inspiring the left — and tripping up its candidates – 8/24/26)
- “The DSA, which saw an explosive rise following the presidential campaigns of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and again after Zohran Mamdani was elected New York mayor, first adopted a platform during its 2021 national convention.” (The Washington Post: This not-so-secret document is inspiring the left — and tripping up its candidates – 8/24/26)
- “Just asked Chuck Schumer if the rise of DSA is good for Dems.” (CNN’s Manu Raju: post on X – 8/4/26)
- “Look, we are a big tent party, and being a big tent party is a strength, not a weakness.” – Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)
- “Schumer said over and over again — and over again, we’re not kidding — that Democrats need to be a ‘big-tent’ party that welcomes rather than suppresses opposing visions of its future. Schumer even deployed the term ‘big tent-ism’ at one point.” (Punchbowl News: AM: Trump on Fly Out Day – 8/6/26)
- By embracing the rise of the DSA in Democrat politics, Schumer and Congressional Democrats are welcoming the DSA’s economic policies into their party:
- “The DSA… seeks in the long term to replace capitalism…” (The Washington Post: Democratic socialists want to reshape the economy. Here’s how. – 7/10/26)
- “For the DSA, taxing the wealthy is one piece of a larger project to shift economic power from corporations to workers. Their long-term aim is public ownership of the largest corporations.” (The Washington Post: Democratic socialists want to reshape the economy. Here’s how. – 7/10/26)
- “The organization’s platform advocates government ownership of much of the economy, including food, education, energy, medicine and transportation.” (The Wall Street Journal: op-ed: How Radical Will the Democrats Get? – 8/18/26)
THIS NEXT GENERATION OF DEMOCRAT LEADERS IS ALSO AGGRESSIVELY ATTEMPTING TO DISMANTLE PUBLIC SAFETY AND THE BASIC TENETS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
- “Democratic candidates are pulled between a fired-up base that wants to see ICE abolished or dramatically reined in, and an undecided voter bloc that’s much less likely to support drastic measures — all while continuing to distance themselves from the Biden administration’s border policies that become political kryptonite for Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 race.” (Politico: Democrats found their border message. ICE is another story. – 8/22/26)
- “Those findings track with other polling this year from Navigator Research and NBC News/SurveyMonkey that found Democrats are much more likely than independents to support abolishing ICE.” (Politico: Democrats found their border message. ICE is another story. – 8/22/26)
- “The DSA’s national platform, which includes universal rent control and abolishing the Senate and the Supreme Court, is meant to offer bold alternatives to the status quo — a posture that its leaders say has powered the group’s rapid rise.” (The Washington Post: This not-so-secret document is inspiring the left — and tripping up its candidates – 8/24/26)
- “The Democratic Socialists of America ‘calls for abolishing the Senate,’ an NBC anchor said to her. ‘Do you support abolishing the Senate?’”
- “‘Many people are very frightened of their positions,’ a CBS host said, before launching a similar line of questioning.”
- “Then, on MS NOW: ‘What about abolishing prisons, which is one of the platforms of the national DSA?’”
- “In addition to abolishing the Senate, the Supreme Court and, eventually, prisons and police, it calls for universal child care, phasing out fossil fuels, and ending military and economic aid to Israel.” (The Washington Post: This not-so-secret document is inspiring the left — and tripping up its candidates – 8/24/26)