Sen. John Thune: The Senate is working for America

Published May 23, 2019 4:00am ET



During his 1980 debate with then-President Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan famously asked Americans whether they were better off than they’d been four years earlier. That question has been a measuring stick for elected officials ever since. Republicans in Congress are committed to making life better for Americans. We’ve made great strides over the past two years, and there’s more on the horizon.

After a historically slow economic recovery from the Great Recession, too many Americans were struggling. That’s why Republicans passed a comprehensive reform of our outdated tax code to put more money in Americans’ pockets and get our economy going again. We cut tax rates for families and doubled the child tax credit, and in 2018 the average family of four saw a tax cut of more than $2,000.

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