Record / E-2026-0041
Middle-income tax cut resolution promised within two weeks is not introduced
On October 22, 2018, Trump said: we're putting in a resolution sometime in the next week, or week and a half, 2 weeks, and said it would provide a middle-income tax reduction of about 10 percent. No corresponding resolution or bill was introduced in the 115th Congress, which adjourned January 3, 2019.
Context
This entry is marked verified_modified because the outcome is a sourced absence rather than a dated event: the finding is that no corresponding measure appears in the legislative record of the 115th Congress, not that a specific action occurred. Congress was in recess for the midterm elections when the statement was made, and the reporter said so to him at the time without contradiction, so a reader may treat the statement as campaign framing rather than a legislative plan.
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Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Prior to Departure for Houston, Texas
Remarks, October 22, 2018, American Presidency Project