Oklahoma Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin joins Fox Across America With guest host Emily Compagno to push back on some of the criticisms of the “big, beautiful bill” that are being promoted by Democratic lawmakers, and even a few of his GOP colleagues.
“So right now you’re hearing there’s a lot of talk about this bill at 3.3 trillion dollars in deficit spending, right? And the sneaky attack is that will happen if we actually don’t pass the bill because right now we’re working on what we call current policy. That’s the tax policies that President Trump passed in 2018 is signed in law. If we allow this bill not to pass and we can’t get the agreement on it on making the taxes permanent, what ends up happening is we have a $4 trillion actual surplus in taxes coming back to Washington, D.C. So what the Democrats are saying is, is we’ll just let it expire then we’re actually going to have new revenue. But since you’re going to not let it expire, that’s actually going to be a deficit to the treasurer. But if you actually look at the CBO score, there’s two CBO scores out here. One is the Democrats pretending, asking the CBO, to pretend like if the taxes expired and we went back to high taxes for everybody and it costs every taxpayer in America more money. The CBO says, well, we’ll have a $4 trillion surplus if you do that. And so our ask was like, no, you can’t do that, the taxes haven’t expired, we’re extending the taxes to make them permanent. So what happens if we don’t let the taxes expire and we make them permanent? Well, you go from a $3.3 trillion deficit to actually a $507 billion surplus, which is exactly what happened when President Trump was in office in 2018, the CBO said we’re going to have $150 billion deficit and reduced taxes. And what’s happened is the treasurer actually in a year and a half saw a $150 surplus. Because why? The American people took the money, invested it in their own backyard, invested in their businesses, hired more people, bought more stuff. And we saw a surplus in income taxes coming to Washington, D.C. So it’s very disingenuous what the Democrats are saying out there.”
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