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Mike Johnson: “The people that make $40,000 or less had their best tax…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Interview with House Speaker Mike Johnson on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

Published | Video Starts at 15:19

The people that benefited most from that were the lowest income Americans. It was households that made between 20, 30 thousand dollars a year annually. They had the biggest benefit from the TCJA. Also, The people that make $40,000 or less had their best tax benefits in over 40 years. Go back and look at the statistics. So what we're doing right now is by making all those tax cuts permanent, we're preventing the largest tax increase in U.S. history. (15:19–15:28)

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