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AllJanuary 28, 2025
Republicans Stop Critical Federal Aid While Meeting Behind Gilded Walls On How To Give More Tax Breaks To Billionaires And Corporations
Washington, D.C. — Last night, the Trump administration sent a memo ordering a funding cut to popular, impactful programs that everyday people depend on, stopping critical support for communities across…
January 23, 2025
The Holidays are Over, but Republicans Keep Expanding Their Wishlist of Cost Raising Measures to Give Bigger Tax Cuts to Billionaires
Washington, D.C. — After campaigning to lower costs for Americans, President Trump and Republicans in Congress are considering a long wishlist of measures to pay for their plan to give…
January 22, 2025
Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress Threaten To Hold Disaster Relief Hostage to Leverage Massive Tax Breaks for the Rich
Washington, D.C. — Yesterday, after a meeting to discuss strategy on moving a reconciliation bill that would include massive tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations, President Trump and Republicans…
January 16, 2025
This Doesn’t Add Up – Republicans Push Out-of-Touch Budget Excuse to Justify Adding More Than $4 Trillion to Debt
Washington, D.C. — This week, Republicans in Congress are making their most creative excuse yet to justify plans to extend their tax breaks for the wealthy: pretending that $4 trillion…
January 7, 2025
President-elect Trump Suggests Raising Prices to Pay for Tax Breaks for the Wealthy and Corporations
Washington, D.C. — President-elect Trump reiterated in a post on Truth Social over the weekend that he and Republicans in Congress will “pay” for his massive tax breaks for the…
December 19, 2024
Unrig Our Economy Launches “Pre-Tariff Gift Guide” of Goods That Would See Higher Prices Under Trumps Tariffs
Washington, D.C. — With the holidays approaching, Unrig Our Economy is releasing a “pre-tariff gift guide” of popular gifts and items that would see price increases under President-elect Trump’s proposed…
December 12, 2024
Shot/Chaser: Trump Plans To Lower Taxes For Corporations, Not Grocery Costs For Americans
WASHINGTON D.C. – President-elect Trump is already buckling to corporate interests as he promises more handouts to corporations while leaving working people behind. Shot: In an interview published this morning,…
November 22, 2024
Unrig Our Economy Launches Ad Campaign Trolling Corporate-Sponsored “Tax Prom” Event
Washington, D.C. – As corporate executives, lobbyists, members of Congress, and their staff arrive at the Tax Foundation’s closed-door “Tax Prom” event, they will be greeted by Unrig Our Economy’s…
October 2, 2024
Lawmakers To Corporations: Come Clean On Your Tax Lobbying
Congress and Advocates Face Converging Expiration of the 2017 GOP Tax Law and the ACA Tax Credits Washington, D.C. – Last week, Democratic lawmakers sent letters to executives at more…