And every step of the way, the giant tax prep companies have thrown up roadblocks to stop it. And When the IRS finally built a free and wildly popular filing option for American taxpayers, the tax prep companies swooped in to kill it the minute that Donald Trump took office. One of my favorite legislative achievements in the Senate is a bipartisan law I got enacted to cut the price of hearing aids by thousands of dollars by overriding a bunch of state level regulatory hurdles. (18:09–18:24)
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Asserts that tax prep companies ended a free IRS tax filing option when Trump became president.
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