Unfortunately, no Democrat voted to protect the American people from a massive tax increase. It took exclusively Republican votes to do that. We prevented more than a $4 million tax increase on the American people and saved my constituents in Texas an average of $3,000. Now people want to talk about affordability. Allowing a $3,000 tax increase to go into effect by effectively voting against this bill certainly does nothing to make affordability better and makes it worse. (03:16–03:27)
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Asserts that Republicans prevented a $4 million tax increase and saved Texans an average of $3,000.
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