07.01.25

Every Senate Democrat Just Voted for More Than $4 Trillion in Tax Hikes

Senate Republicans Delivered on the Priorities of the American People. Senate Democrats Voted to Raise Taxes and Against Border Security, Defense Funding, and American Energy Dominance.

EVERY SINGLE SENATE DEMOCRAT TRIED TO RAISE TAXES ON AMERICAN FAMILIES AND SMALL BUSINESSES – BUT REPUBLICANS REFUSED TO LET THAT HAPPEN

“This is about extending that tax relief, so the same people that benefited from it back in 2017 and for the last eight years don’t end up having a colossal, massive tax increase hitting them in the face come January 1… $2.6 trillion of this tax hike that [Democrats are] supporting would hit families making less than $400,000 a year. It would hit small businesses, to the tune of $600 billion in tax increases.” – Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.)

“So I say to everybody in America who’s been hearing all of the politics of fear about what we’re doing here, and running up the deficit, need to remember that only in Washington, D.C., is the refusal to raise your taxes an increase in the deficit. And we’re not going to let that happen.” – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)

  • Every single Senate Democrat voted against Republicans’ bill to deliver the largest tax relief in American history. (Senate Republican Cloakroom: post on X – 7/1/25; U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: Republicans are Providing Tax Relief to Working Families and Main Street – 6/30/25)
  • Senate Republicans’ reconciliation bill permanently extends the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, preventing an over – $4 trillion tax increase on the American people and a $2.6 trillion tax hike on households earning less than $400,000 per year. (U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: Crapo Highlights Tax Wins for Hardworking Americans and Main Street – 6/28/25; The Wall Street Journal: Editorial: Republicans Reconcile on Taxes – 2/14/25)
  • The bill includes direct tax relief for America’s service workers and hourly wage earners:
    • Tipped wages, “up to $25,000 for qualified tips,” will no longer be taxed, benefiting millions of American service workers. (U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: Crapo Highlights Tax Wins for Hardworking Americans and Main Street – 6/28/25)
    • Overtime wages, “up to $12,500 ($25,000 in the case of a joint return) for qualified overtime compensation,” will no longer be taxed, increasing labor productivity and giving millions of hourly workers more take-home pay. (U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: Crapo Highlights Tax Wins for Hardworking Americans and Main Street – 6/28/25)
  • On top of this historic relief for American taxpayers, the bill also reduces the burden on Main Street businesses, including:
    • Making permanent the “small business deduction, enabling job creation and spurring local economic activity.”
    • “Full expensing for domestic R&D to encourage domestic innovation.”
    • “Full expensing for new capital investments, like machinery and equipment, to boost domestic production.”
    • “Restor[ing] interest deductibility to a globally competitive standard to help finance critical domestic investments.”
    • “Full expensing for new factories and factory improvements to accelerate domestic manufacturing.”
    • “Permanently renew[ing] and enhanc[ing] the Opportunity Zone program, driving $100+ billion of investment to rural and distressed communities.” (U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: Republicans are Powering the Economy Through Pro-Growth Tax Policy – 6/20/25)
  • By opposing Republicans’ bill, Senate Democrats broke their pledge not to raise taxes on households making less than $400,000 per year:

DEMOCRATS VOTED TO ALLOW ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO CONTINUE RECEIVING TAXPAYER-FUNDED HEALTH BENEFITS AND OPPOSED POPULAR MEDICAID WORK REQUIREMENTS

  • Senate Democrats blocked Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) effort to penalize states that provide health benefits to illegal aliens who have been convicted or charged with sex offenses, human trafficking, domestic violence, child abuse or neglect, murder, or explicit images of a minor. (Motion to Waive re: Cornyn Amdt. No. 2705: Roll Call Vote #342 – 6/30/25)
  • Senate Democrats unanimously rejected Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s (R-Tenn.) effort to prohibit illegal immigrants from receiving taxpayer benefits like Medicaid and CHIP. (Motion to Waive re: Blackburn Amdt. No. 2401: Roll Call Vote #345 – 6/30/25)
    • “The Biden administration… enacted several major Medicaid rule changes with giant fiscal costs,” including a rule finalized in 2024 that keeps people on Medicaid “when they are no longer eligible,” while restricting the times “when states may verify changes in eligibility.” (Paragon Health Institute: Biden’s Medicaid Changes: High Costs, Misguided Policy – 11/6/24)
    • Democrat states that have provided Medicaid-funded coverage to illegal immigrants are starting to realize that coverage is unsustainable “because of ballooning costs” and because the “programs have far exceeded their original cost estimates.” (NBC News: Democratic governors seek to roll back state-funded health care for undocumented immigrants – 6/11/25; The Wall Street Journal: Editorial: The Mediscare Campaign, CBO Version – 6/5/25; Capitol News Illinois: State on track to end health coverage program for immigrant adults – 5/13/25)
    • Republicans’ bill establishes work requirements for able-bodied adults who don’t have dependent children younger than 14 years of age, or a disabled individual in their care. (U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: Crapo Highlights Tax Wins for Hardworking Americans and Main Street – 6/28/25)
    • “Able-bodied adults without dependents can work, participate in a work training program, enroll in school or volunteer for 20 hours per week in order to receive taxpayer-subsidized Medicaid coverage.” (U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: Crapo Highlights Tax Wins for Hardworking Americans and Main Street – 6/28/25)
    • According to a March poll, 62% of Americans support Medicaid work requirements, “which would require nearly all adults to be working or looking for work in order to have health insurance through Medicaid,” including 82% of Republicans and 60% of independents. (Kaiser Family Foundation: KFF Health Tracking Poll February 2025: The Public’s Views on Potential Changes to Medicaid – 3/7/25)
    • Even after Democrat attacks on Republicans’ bill, Americans support Medicaid work requirements by a 16-point margin. (Semafor: Principals – 6/30/25)

DEMOCRATS STILL DON’T WANT TO MEANINGFULLY ADDRESS AMERICA’S BORDER, DEFENSE, OR ENERGY NEEDS – AND FOCUSED INSTEAD ON FAILED, FAR-LEFT DISTRACTIONS

“To anyone listening: this is not a time to give up. Speak up, speak loud, fight back.” – Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.)

“Democrats are united in doing everything possible to kill this bill.” – Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.)

  • Instead of supporting Republicans’ efforts to secure the border, a top priority of the American people, Senate Democrats threatened to use a future majority to enact mass amnesty for illegal immigrants:
    • The last time a current policy baseline was used to score tax relief, it was President Obama who led the charge. Now that Republicans are using it for the same purpose, Democrats are threatening to burn down the Senate to enact extreme far-left immigration policies. (The Hill: White House: Deal cuts deficits by $737 billion – 1/2/13; Obama White House: American Taxpayer Relief Act Reduces Deficits by $737 Billion – 1/1/13)
    • Republicans’ bill includes over $160 billion for lasting border security funding. (U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget: Chairman Graham Releases Full Senate Text Of President's One Big Beautiful Bill – 6/28/25)
    • There is no filibuster if the Senate R’s do this and when Dems take power there is no reason why we should not use reconciliation to pass immigration reform.” – Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.)
    • “Democrats won't forget how Republicans broke the filibuster to pass tax breaks for billionaires. There will be no stopping us from doing the same to pass meaningful, comprehensive immigration reform.” – Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.)
  • Democrats don’t actually want to rebuild America’s military, either:
    • Republicans’ legislation directs over $150 billion to rebuilding America’s military. (U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget: Chairman Graham Releases Full Senate Text Of President's One Big Beautiful Bill – 6/28/25)
  • Senate Democrats voted to return to costly and harmful Biden-era energy policies, including a misguided effort by Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) to increase federal intervention and red tape in energy production in order to prioritize “green energy” over an all-of-the-above energy strategy. (Warnock Motion to Commit: Roll Call Vote #359 – 7/1/25)
  • Senate Democrats also doubled down on government funding for abortions by trying to strike Republicans’ commonsense provision preventing certain Medicaid funding from going to abortion service providers like Planned Parenthood. (Motion to Waive re: Murray Amdt. No. 2771: Roll Call Vote #344 – 6/30/25)