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Democratic National Committee
stated on January 16, 2018 in a Medium post:
The Republicans and President Donald Trump “passed a tax bill that gave 80 percent of its benefits to the top 1 percent.”
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By Louis Jacobson • January 16, 2018
Kayleigh McEnany
stated on December 27, 2017 in an interview:
“Come February (2018), Americans will see their paychecks grow at the tune of saving $1,000 or more a year.”  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • January 10, 2018
Ted Cruz
stated on December 19, 2017 in Senate floor debate of federal tax legislation:
“Every taxpayer, their taxes are going down, except rich people in Manhattan and San Francisco. Some of them, their taxes may go up.”
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 5, 2018
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on December 15, 2017 in Buffalo:
“The truth is this tax [plan] raises middle-class taxes.”
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By Dan Clark • December 22, 2017
Paul Ryan
stated on December 13, 2017 in an interview:
The 1986 tax reform approved under Ronald Reagan “was polling at about 18 percent right before they passed it.”
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By Tom Kertscher • December 18, 2017
Gwen Moore
stated on November 29, 2017 in a House floor speech:
The House tax plan “would provide permanent tax cuts for individuals who are multi-millionaires and billionaires,” but “all middle-class families will eventually face a tax increase, since tax relief for them expires.”  
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By Tom Kertscher • December 15, 2017
Paul Ryan
stated on December 1, 2017 in an interview:
Under the House Republican tax plan, in Wisconsin, “the median household of four gets about a $2,000 tax cut, on average.”
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • December 8, 2017
Roy Cooper
stated on November 30, 2017 in a blog:
Half of the proposed federal tax breaks ​”would go to the wealthiest 1 percent.”
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By Paul Specht • December 5, 2017
Chris Ruddy
stated on December 3, 2017 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos":
Says “$3 trillion in offshore money… is coming back into the economy” because of the GOP tax bills.
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • December 5, 2017
Thom Tillis
stated on November 29, 2017 in a press conference:
The Senate GOP plan does not raise taxes for Americans earning less than $70,000.
Half-True
By Paul Specht • November 30, 2017
Kevin Brady
stated on November 26, 2017 in an interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo:
In the House Republican bill, “70 percent of the tax relief goes to those families making less than 200,000.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 30, 2017
Nancy Pelosi
stated on November 27, 2017 in a tweet from her team's political account:
The GOP tax plan “Sabotages the health care of 13 MILLION Americans.”
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • November 29, 2017
Marco Rubio
stated on November 26, 2017 in an interview:
“Close to half of the voters in America, the only tax they pay is the payroll tax.”
Half-True
By Allison Graves • November 28, 2017
Lloyd Doggett
stated on November 20, 2017 in an interview with Sinclair Broadcast Group:
Under the Republican tax bill, President Donald Trump “and his family would walk off with more than a billion dollars personally.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 27, 2017
John Larson
stated on November 10, 2017 in a House Ways and Means Committee markup:
Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee weren’t “even entitled to bring an expert witness on any aspect of the tax code that affects 100 percent of our economy.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 22, 2017
NARAL Pro-Choice America
stated on November 15, 2017 in an online popup ad:
Says Paul Ryan is leading the effort to “pass a tax bill with divisive conception language by disguising it as a college savings plan” in “another attempt to ban abortion and rob women of their reproductive rights.”
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • November 22, 2017
Rick Scott
stated on November 9, 2017 in a Tampa news conference :
“We’ve cut taxes 75 times, cut $7.5 billion worth in taxes, and as a result we’ve added over 1.3 million jobs.”
Half-True
By Allison Graves • November 21, 2017
Steve Mnuchin
stated on November 19, 2017 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
“On the personal tax side, middle-income people are getting cuts and rich people are getting very little cuts or, in certain cases, increases” under the Republican tax bills.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 20, 2017
Andrew Cuomo
stated on November 14, 2017 in a tweet:
Congressional Republicans “want to take health care from millions of Americans in order to pay for” a tax bill.
Half-True
By Dan Clark, Louis Jacobson • November 16, 2017
Donald Trump
stated on November 13, 2017 in a tweet:
Says the individual mandate is “highly unpopular.”  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 14, 2017
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