Eliot Engel: Trump’s Tax Cut Is a ‘Phony Bill’ and It Will Not Help the Middle Class

‘The president and his people should know better’

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ENGEL: "You know, this -- this bill, this tax bill was a giveaway to the very wealthy people like Donald Trump and to wealthy corporations. And in some instances, the middle class will get a small increase, but it’s only temporary, it's bait and switch. The middle-class increase if there are any — and lots of middle-class people that will find that they get tax increases rather than decreases. The problem with -- with the whole thing is that it — it goes away in four or five years, whereas the tax increases for the millionaires and the billionaires and the wealthy corporations become permanent. So this is a bait and switch."
BROWN: "You mean, tax cuts?"
ENGEL: "This is a phony bill. This is not a bill that will help the middle class. And the president and his people should know better."

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