{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2916", "One Year Later: Democrats Tout Tax Cuts They Voted Against", "2026-07-13", "2026", "2026-07", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Mike Johnson", "J000299", "mikejohnson.house.gov", "mikejohnson", "https://mikejohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "House and Senate Democrats are regretting their votes in support of a $5 trillion tax hike on working families\n\nWASHINGTON \u2014 One year after President Trump signed the Working Families Tax Cuts into law, hardworking American families across the nation are paying lower taxes and keeping more of what they earn \u2013 outcomes the legislation was written to achieve. Democrats unanimously opposed these transformational tax provisions for working families, instead voting for a $5 trillion tax hike \u2013 the largest in history.\n\nHowever, despite Congressional Democrats\u2019 vehement and unanimous opposition and state-level Democrat attempts to actually block implementation of these tax provisions, many Democrats are now claiming to see the wisdom of providing tax relief to working families. Many House and Senate Democrats are lying to their voters, taking credit for legislation they actively opposed.\n\n\u201cWith their unanimous opposition to the Working Families Tax Cuts, Congressional Democrats in unison voted against no tax on tips and overtime, the doubled child tax credit, $50 billion for rural healthcare, and investment accounts for every newborn in America,\u201d Speaker Johnson said. \u201cNow, as tens of millions of citizens are benefitting from this historic tax relief, Democrats are attempting to mislead the American people and claim credit for something they opposed vehemently. Republicans will not let the American people forget that if Democrats had it their way, every taxpayer would have faced the largest tax increase in American history.\u201d\n\nA few examples of how Democrats support the Working Families Tax Cuts:\n\nRep. Kristen McDonald Rivet ran two television ads in her district funded using taxpayer dollars to say she \u201cpassed Working Families Tax Credit\u201d and that she is \u201chelping Michiganders claim the Working Families Tax Credit.\u201d Spoiler alert: like every other Democrat in Congress, she opposed the Working Families Tax Cuts. Now she\u2019s trying to take the credit.\n\nSen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) introduced a bill that would make Trump Accounts permanent and automatically enroll newborns into the program, which he renames \u201cAmerican Dream Accounts,\u201d and a bill to make No Tax on Tips permanent, saying \u201cwe must ensure that [...] as many workers as possible can benefit as much as possible.\u201d\n\nReps. Dina Titus (D-NV), Steven Horsford (D-NV), and Susie Lee (D-NV), along with Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) wrote a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent \u201cto ensure the successful implementation of this [No Tax on Tips] provision for our constituents and tipped workers across the country.\u201d They all voted no, despite knowing they are \u201clawmakers representing our nation\u2019s most hospitality and service industry dependent economy.\u201d\n\nReps. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) admitted, \u201cThere are certain things that I liked in the big, ugly bill.\u201d He and Emilia Sykes (D-OH) helped introduce a bill to expand eligibility for No Tax on Overtime.\n\nRep. Emmanuel Cleaver (D-MO) and Rep. Sharice Davids (D-KS) sent a joint press release, and Rep. Nellie Pou (D-NJ) also took credit, for securing hundreds of millions of dollars in security funding for the World Cup \u2013 despite trashing the Working Families Tax Cuts, voting against the legislation which included the funding, and taking repeated voted to keep the Department of Homeland Security \u2013the agency tasked with World Cup security \u2013 closed.\n\nWhy are Democrats taking credit for this monumental legislation? Because the policies \u2013 and the successful results that followed \u2013 speak for themselves:\n\nKEEPING MORE OF YOUR MONEY\n\n97% of filers received a tax cut this past filing season, who would have otherwise owed taxes absent the extension of President Trump\u2019s 2017 tax cuts.\n\n$82 billion has been returned to the American people from the individual tax cuts in the WFTC.\n\n96% of filers receiving a tax cut earned less than $200,000.\n\nFilers earning between $100,000 to $200,000, who claimed one of President Trump\u2019s signature tax cuts, received an average tax cut of over $1,250.\n\nNearly 70% of filers receiving a tax cut earned less than $100,000.\n\nFilers earning between $50,000 to $100,000, who claimed one of President Trump\u2019s signature tax cuts, received an average tax cut over $815.\n\nNo Tax on Tips: Over 7.5 million filers have claimed No Tax on Tips, with an average deduction of over $7,000.\n\n90% of filers claiming the No Tax on Tips deduction had income under $100,000.\n\n99% of filers claiming the No Tax on Tips deduction had income under $200,000.\n\nNo Tax on Overtime: Over 29 million filers have claimed No Tax on Overtime, with an average deduction of over $3,100.\n\n75% of filers claiming the No Tax on Overtime deduction had income under $100,000.\n\n96% of filers claiming the No Tax on Overtime deduction had income under $200,000.\n\nEnhanced Senior Deduction: Over 35 million seniors have claimed the Enhanced Deduction for Seniors, with an average deduction of over $7,500.\n\n68% of filers claiming the Enhanced Senior Deduction had income under $100,000.\n\n94% of filers claiming the Enhanced Senior Deduction had income under $200,000.\n\nNo Tax on Car Loan Interest: Over 1.4 million filers have claimed No Tax on Car Loan Interest on their new American vehicles, with an average deduction of over $1,800.\n\n62% of filers claiming the No Tax on Car Loan Interest deduction had income under $100,000.\n\n98% of filers claiming the No Tax on Car Loan Interest deduction had income under $200,000.\n\nEnhanced Child Tax Credit: Nearly 40 million families have claimed the enhanced Child Tax Credit, which is permanently doubled and expanded by the Working Families Tax Cuts.\n\n65% of all families claiming the credit had income under $100,000.\n\n89% of all families claiming the credit had income under $200,000.\n\nDoubled Standard Deduction: Over 127 million filers, or 90% of all tax filers, have claimed the permanently doubled standard deduction, simplifying tax filing for millions across America.\n\nBoosts take home pay for a typical hardworking family by over $10,000 a year.\n\nMore than 6 million Trump Accounts have been opened for American children, and 1.4 million are eligible to receive the initial $1,000 seed contribution from the Working Families Tax Cuts.\n\n86% of Trump Accounts opened are linked to families earning less than $200,000 annually.\n\n500,000 children received the $1,000 seed fund on July 4, 2026 from the Trump administration.\n\nTHE WORKING FAMILIES TAX CUTS\n\nPuts American Farmers First: Prevents foreign countries from flooding our markets with biofuel feedstocks that compete with American grown agriculture.\n\nInvests in Rural America: Created the Rural Health Transformation Program and invested $50 billion over five years to transparently and efficiently transform rural health access.\n\nSupports Family Farms: Protects two million family farms from excessive taxation by raising the death tax exemption, helping generational farms stay in the family by increasing the amount family farms can inherit tax free.\n\nExpands Access to Disaster Aid: Expands access to standing disaster programs and conservation programs.\n\nInvests in American Agriculture: Expands affordable crop insurance and improves risk management tools for livestock, aquaculture, honeybees, and specialty crops.\n\nEnsures Tax Dollars Benefit Americans, Not Illegals: Ensures American taxpayers are no longer funding benefits for illegals on Medicaid and SNAP.\n\nProvides Small Business Relief: Provides immediate tax relief to farmers, ranchers, and rural Americans by increasing the small business expensing threshold and permanently extending the Small Business Deduction.\n\nDelivers Historic Tax Relief: This landmark legislation puts more money back into Americans\u2019 pockets with American families and workers claiming $82 billion in individual relief directly from the Working Families Tax Cuts.\n\nMakes Permanent the Child Tax Credit: Permanently increased and enhanced $2,200 child tax credit for tens of millions of families.\n\nSupports School Choice and Parental Rights: Creates the first-ever federal tax credit to provide scholarships to children to attend a K-12 school of their choice.\n\nCreates Trump Accounts: Gives eligible children born between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2028, a $1,000 contribution from the Treasury Department.\n\nExpands the Adoption Tax Credit: Improvements to the Adoption Tax Credit make adoption more affordable\n\nExpands Skills-Based Training: Allows students to pay for short-term vocational and technical training programs that align with in-demand, high-skill, high-wage jobs.\n\nExpands Education Savings: Doubles the allowed annual distribution amount for K-12 expenses and expands qualified K-12 expenses to include materials, books, testing fees, online programs, tutoring. Expands qualified distributions for post-secondary career paths to include trade schools, technical certifications, and other workforce development credentialing.\n\n###", 1, "2026-07-14T07:08:55Z", "2026-07-14T07:10:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2916"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7250243797898293, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}