‘What Would Your Family Do With a Pet Unicorn?’
President Donald Trump and Republicans are desperate to pass a “tax reform” bill by the end of the year. Chances they will be successful are slim, since this administration literally has had exactly zero major legislative wins since taking office in January. Chances are also slim since no bill has been written yet, and since Trump’s spokespeople, Republican lawmakers, and GOP surrogates are all falsely claiming the nonexistent tax reform bill will give families across America a $4000 annual raise.
Claiming “The average American family would get a $4,000 raise under the President’s tax cut plan,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been asking, “What would your family do w/ a $4,000 raise from the President’s tax cut plan?”Â
Here’s how one person explained the fast one she’s trying to pull:
Huckabee Sanders has been posting these tweets – which are all based on that false premise:
Here’s what former Obama White House Deputy Assistant to the President for economic policy and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council Jacob Leibenluft, who also led Secretary Hillary Clinton’s economic policy team had to say on the press secretary’s claims:
Michael Linden, an economic policy “wonk” and Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute:
In other words, the claim is false, and like everything else out of the Trump administration, a sham.
Folks on Twitter have decided to mock Sarah Huckabee Sanders for asking, “What would your family do w/ a $4,000 raise from the President’s tax cut plan?” and related claims:
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