John Thune: “100 million Americans claim the standard deduction, both of…”

“Can it be simplified more? Absolutely. But are we lowering taxes on working families, you know, and things that we did, 34 million families that take the child tax credit, there are 100 million Americans claim the standard deduction, both of which have been doubled and now made permanent. and actually increased above even what we did back in 2017 with that tax reform. So there is a, it's a new, I think, day in America in terms of working families.” (07:06–07:25)

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