[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 104 (Tuesday, June 17, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S3446]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL

  Mr. MERKLEY. Mr. President, I thank my colleague from Massachusetts 
for laying out how families lose and billionaires win on this not so 
beautiful bill that Trump has put forward.
  It is really a big beautiful betrayal, betrayal because Trump 
campaigned for helping families. But as we have seen with the details 
in the end, this is about helping billionaires. The bottom 20 percent, 
the less affluent, they get tax benefits of about $90 a year.
  Somebody who earns a million dollars gets $90,000 a year of tax 
benefit--$90,000 for an already, well-off, rich individual, and $90 for 
ordinary families struggling to get on its feet.

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