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Ted Cruz: “If we had not done that...there would have been a $4…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 03:33

All right, look, the working families tax cut, the biggest element of it was extending and making permanent the Trump tax cuts. If we had not done that...there would have been a $4 trillion tax increase. that would have been crippling to the economy. So making those tax cuts permanent is enormously important. We also made them bigger. So we pass no taxes on tips. (03:33–03:42)

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Asserts that not making the Trump tax cuts permanent would have resulted in a $4 trillion tax increase.

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