{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=EEEB598F-698D-4975-91B3-666E42FCF73D", "Thune: Republicans Delivered Tax Relief for Working Families", "2025-12-03", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "Senate", "SD", "John Thune", "T000250", "www.thune.senate.gov", "thune", "https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "Clickhereto watch the video.\n\nWASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor:\n\nThune\u2019s remarks below (as delivered):\n\n\u201cMr. President, we are four weeks away from the new year \u2013 and from the date that the 2017 tax relief for Americans was set to expire.\n\n\u201cBack in 2017, of course, Republicans passed a huge tax relief package.\n\n\u201cWe lowered tax rates for every income group.\n\n\u201cWe doubled the child tax credit.\n\n\u201cAnd we nearly doubled the standard deduction.\n\n\u201cBut all of that was scheduled to expire at the end of this year.\n\n\u201cAnd without action, Americans would have seen their tax rates increase and the child tax credit shrink by 50 percent.\n\n\u201cA typical family would have seen its taxes go up by about $1,700 a year.\n\n\u201cIn my state of South Dakota, a typical family would have seen a $2,500 tax increase.\n\n\u201cRepublicans were determined not to let that happen.\n\n\u201cAnd so a priority for 2025 became extending the 2017 tax relief.\n\n\u201cBut not just extending it \u2013 making it permanent.\n\n\u201cWe didn\u2019t want hardworking Americans to have to worry every few years that their tax bills were suddenly going to soar.\n\n\u201cAnd so in July we passed the Working Families Tax Cut to make permanent the 2017 tax relief.\n\n\u201cWe made those lower tax rates permanent.\n\n\u201cWe made the increased standard deduction permanent.\n\n\u201cAnd we made the increased child tax credit permanent.\n\n\u201cBut, Mr. President, we didn\u2019t stop there.\n\n\u201cWe expanded the child tax credit even further \u2013 and indexed it to inflation so that its value will never go down.\n\n\u201cWe also further increased the standard deduction, exempting additional money from Americans\u2019 taxable income.\n\n\u201cAnd we added a new $6,000 bonus deduction for seniors, allowing Americans on Social Security to keep more of their money.\n\n\u201cAnd that\u2019s still not all, Mr. President.\n\n\u201cWe eliminated taxes on tips for millions of tipped workers.\n\n\u201cUber and Lyft drivers. Hairstylists. Delivery drivers. Servers at restaurants.\n\n\u201cWe also eliminated taxes on overtime pay for millions of hourly workers.\n\n\u201cThanks to this provision, everyone from nurses and police officers to firefighters and paramedics will be able to keep more of their hard-earned money.\n\n\u201cAnd we did still more.\n\n\u201cBecause one aspect of prosperity is being able to keep more of what you earn.\n\n\u201cAnother aspect is being able to earn more.\n\n\u201cAnd so in addition to the individual tax relief, we also made permanent some of the 2017 tax law\u2019s business tax relief, to help businesses grow and create new jobs and opportunities for workers.\n\n\u201cThat included the lower tax rates for small and medium-sized businesses.\n\n\u201cThe job-creating 199A small business deduction.\n\n\u201cAnd full expensing for new equipment and for domestic research and development.\n\n\u201cAnd again, we went beyond the 2017 tax relief and added full expensing for new factories and factory improvements \u2013 so we can expect to see more goods made in America, and, again, more jobs and opportunities for American workers.\n\n\u201cWe also acted to protect countless family farms, ranches, and small businesses from the punitive death tax \u2013 and all of the headaches and expense that come with planning for it.\n\n\u201cMr. President, I\u2019m incredibly proud of what we were able to accomplish for hardworking Americans.\n\n\u201cWe not only averted a massive tax hike on American families, but were able to further lessen Americans\u2019 tax burden.\n\n\u201cAnd hardworking Americans can be assured that Republicans will continue to work to enhance affordability, expand opportunity, and increase prosperity.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=EEEB598F-698D-4975-91B3-666E42FCF73D"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8899001404643059, "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"}