{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.speaker.gov/general/speaker-ryan-talks-tax-cuts-morning-shows", "$2,059: Speaker Ryan Talks Tax Cuts on the Morning Shows", "2017-12-20", "2017", "2017-12", "Republican", "House", "WI", "Paul Ryan", "R000570", "www.speaker.gov", null, null, "legacy", "This morning, Speaker Ryan made the rounds on four morning shows to discuss how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will deliver real relief and bigger paychecks for middle-income families. Watch the interviews and check out the excerpts below.\nCBS This Morning:\nSpeaker Ryan: The average family of four in America earning the median income is going to get a $2,059 tax cut. And when more than half of Americans are telling us that they are living paycheck-to-paycheck, thats real relief. When you double the per Child Tax Credit, when you double the standard deduction, and you lower the rates across the board for every income group, thats real relief for families, for individuals. So thats really helpful and thats really something I think is needed in these difficult economic times where people literally are living paycheck-to-paycheck.\nFox & Friends:\nSpeaker Ryan: Number one, all tax rates go down. The top rate and every rate in between are lowered. So you get lower rates across the board. Number two, we double the standard deduction. That means you can see our postcard, I like to bring this thing up. Still nearly nine out of 10 people in America will be able to do their taxes on a form the size of a postcard because theyll take that standard deduction. . . .The average tax cut for your viewers, the median family of four in America is going to get a $2,059 tax cut. So thats real money for real people who are struggling.\nGood Morning America:\nSpeaker Ryan: People have been hit by the media and the Democrats on their TV screen that everyone is getting a big tax increase, and thats just not the case. The average median family of four in America is going to get a $2,059 tax cut. The average taxpayer in every income group is getting a tax cut, so I think when people actually see that instead of getting tax increases, theyre getting a tax cut, when they see the withholding tables changing in February and seeing more money in their paychecks, when theyre seeing the economic growth that will result from historic tax reform, I think minds are going to change.\nToday Show:\nSpeaker Ryan: People are living paycheck-to-paycheck in this country, more than half the people in this country. Another group of people in this country are about one check away from living paycheck-to-paycheck. We have not had a 3 percent growth economy since before the great recession in 2008. What that means is stagnant wages, flat living standards. You have to get faster economic growth, so that people can get ahead in America. Thats what were doing. The average tax cut for the median family of four in America is going to be $2,059. $2,000, if youre living paycheck-to-paycheck, is a serious tax cut. So what were trying to do here is give relief to hardworking families, give relief to Americans, were doubling the Child Tax Credit, doubling the standard deduction, lowering rates across the board, were making it so simple so that nine out of 10 taxpayers can do their taxes on a form like a postcard.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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://www.speaker.gov/general/speaker-ryan-talks-tax-cuts-morning-shows"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0567009449005127, "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"}