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GOP push to make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent, say going back would be a ‘dramatic’ change for many
Tax season is done.
And this year, Congressional Republicans converted tax season to «sales» season. Republicans and President Donald Trump are pushing to approve a bill to reauthorize his 2017 tax cut package. Otherwise, those taxes expire later this year.
«We absolutely have to make the tax cuts permanent,» said Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., on FOX Business.
«We’ve got to get the renewal of the President’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. That’s absolutely essential,» said Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., on FOX Business.
Rates for nearly every American spike if Congress doesn’t act within the next few months.
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with the media after the House passed the budget resolution on Thursday, April 10, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
«We are trying to avoid tax increases on the most vulnerable populations in our country,» said Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee which determines tax policy. «I am trying to avoid a recession.»
If Congress stumbles, the non-partisan Tax Foundation estimates that a married couple with two children – earning $165,000 a year – is slapped with an extra $2,400 in taxes. A single parent with no kids making $75,000 annually could see a $1,700 upcharge on their tax bill. A single parent with two children bringing home $52,000 a year gets slapped with an additional $1,400 in taxes a year.
«Pretty significant. That’s an extra mortgage payment or extra rent payment,» said Daniel Bunn of the non-partisan Tax Foundation. «People have been kind of used to living with the policies that are currently in law for almost eight years now. And the shift back to the policy that was prior to the 2017 tax cuts would be a dramatic tax increase for many.»
But technically, Republicans aren’t cutting taxes.
«As simple as I can make this bill. It is about keeping tax rates the same,» said Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, on Fox.
Congress had to write the 2017 tax reduction bill in a way so that the reductions would expire this year. That was for accounting purposes. Congress didn’t have to count the tax cuts against the deficit thanks to some tricky number-crunching mechanisms – so long as they expired within a multi-year window. But the consequence was that taxes could climb if lawmakers failed to renew the old reductions.
«It sunsets and so you just automatically go back to the tax levels prior to 2017,» said Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
A recent Fox News poll found that 45% of those surveyed – and 44% of independents believe the rich don’t pay enough taxes.
Democrats hope to turn outrage about the perceived tax disparity against Trump.
«He wants his billionaire buddies to get an even bigger tax break. Is that disgraceful?» asked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., at a rally in New York.
«Disgrace!» shouted someone in the crowd.
«Disgraceful! Disgraceful!» followed up Schumer.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., (R) speaks alongside Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., (L) to reporters during a news conference on the impacts of the Republican budget proposal at the U.S. Capitol on April 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Some Republicans are now exploring raising rates on the wealthy or corporations. There’s been chatter on Capitol Hill and in the administration about exploring an additional set of tax brackets.
«I don’t believe the president has made a determination on whether he supports it or not,» said White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt.
«We’re going to see where the President is» on this, said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent while traveling in Argentina. «Everything is on the table.»
A Treasury spokesperson then clarified Bessent’s remarks.
«What’s off the table is a $4.4 trillion tax increase on the American people,» said the spokesperson. «Additionally, corporate tax cuts will set off a manufacturing boom and rapidly grow the U.S. economy again.»
Top Congressional GOP leaders dismissed the idea.
«I’m not a big fan of doing that,» said House Speaker Mike Johnson on Fox. «I mean we’re the Republican party and we’re for tax reduction for everyone.»
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«I don’t support that initiative,» said House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., on FOX Business, before adding «everything’s on the table.»
But if you’re President Donald Trump and the GOP, consider the politics of creating a new corporate tax rate or hiking taxes on the well-to-do.
Sunrise light hits the U.S. Capitol dome on Thursday, January 2, 2025, as the 119th Congress is set to begin Friday. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
The president has expanded the GOP base. Republicans are no longer the party of the «wealthy.» Manual laborers, shop and storekeepers and small business persons now comprise Trump’s GOP. So maintaining these tax cuts helps with that working-class core. Raising taxes on the wealthy would help Republicans pay for the tax cuts and reduce the hit on the deficit. And it would shield Republicans from the Democrats’ argument that the tax cuts are for the rich.
Congress is now in the middle of a two-week recess for Passover and Easter. GOP lawmakers and staff are working behind the scenes to actually write the bill. No one knows exactly what will be in the bill. Trump promised no taxes on tips for food service workers. There is also talk of no taxes on overtime.
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Republicans from high-tax states like New York and Pennsylvania want to see a reduction of «SALT.» That’s where taxpayers can write off «state and local taxes.» This provision is crucial to secure the support of Republicans like Reps. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., and Mike Lawler, R-N.Y. But including the SALT reduction also increases the deficit.
So what will the bill look like?
«Minor adjustments within that are naturally on the table,» said Rounds. «The key though, [is] 218 in the House and 51 in the Senate.»
In other words, it’s about the math. Republicans need to develop the right legislative brew which commands just the right amount of votes in both chambers to pass. That could mean including certain provisions – or dumping others. It’s challenging. Especially with the slim House majority.
People attend a press conference and rally in support of fair taxation near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on April 10, 2025. (Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP)
«There were trade-offs and offsets within that bill that many people are dissatisfied with,» said Bunn of the 2017 bill. «And it’s not clear how the package is going to come together with those various trade-offs.»
Johnson wants the bill complete by Memorial Day. Republicans know this enterprise can’t drag on too late into the year. Taxpayers would see a tax increase – even if it’s temporary – if working out the bill stretches into the fall when the IRS begins to prepare for the next tax season.
It’s also thought that finishing this sooner rather than later would provide some stability to the volatile stock markets. Establishing tax policy for next year would calm anxieties about the nation’s economic outlook.
«The big, beautiful bill,» Trump calls it, adding he wants the legislation done «soon.»
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And that’s why tax season is now sales season. Both to the lawmakers. And to the public.
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Colorado’s loss in the Supreme Court’s Kaley Chiles case last week marked the third time in recent years the justices have rebuked the state in a major culture-war dispute, adding to a growing pattern of high-profile reversals in cases over speech, religion and anti-discrimination law.
The high court’s decision was the latest in a trio of lawsuits that backfired for Colorado, after the Colorado Civil Rights Commission lost in court to a cake baker in a key religious liberty case and after a website designer won a similar battle against the state’s civil rights division. Conservative legal experts said the legal setbacks for the state were not a coincidence.
«Colorado seems hell-bent on enforcing its own new orthodoxy of thought, and the Supreme Court has had to come back time and time again to correct them and to remind them that the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, freedom of religion, even when the state may disagree with a person’s opinions,» Carrie Severino, president of the legal watchdog JCN, told Fox News Digital.
The Supreme Court last week found that Colorado’s conversion therapy ban, signed into law in 2019 by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, violated the First Amendment because it only restricted talk therapy when the therapy aimed to prevent minors from embracing being transgender or gay.
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Kaley Chiles, plaintiff in Chiles v. Salazar (Alliance Defending Freedom press release) (Alliance Defending Freedom, press release)
In response to a question from Fox News Digital about the apparent theme, Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Jim Campbell said the state «has proven itself to be no respecter of the First Amendment.»
«I don’t think at this point that it’s coincidental,» said Campbell, who represented Chiles before the Supreme Court during oral arguments. «The State of Colorado has shown an utter disregard for the First Amendment rights of people like Kaley Chiles.»
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In Chiles v. Salazar, the high court found 8-1 that the state law discriminated based on viewpoint. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority opinion that such laws suppressing speech on that basis amounted to an «‘egregious’ assault» on the Constitution.
«The First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country,» Gorsuch wrote.
The case centered on Chiles, a licensed faith-based counselor in Colorado Springs, who argued that she helped youths reach their own stated goals, which she said could include minors seeking counseling on their sexuality and gender identity.
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Protesters wave transgender pride flags outside the Supreme Court as it hears arguments over state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Washington. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)
Colorado argued it was allowed to regulate Chiles’ therapy because it amounted to professional conduct and the state wanted to protect minors from Chiles’ perceived harmful counseling.
The decision followed a landmark ruling in 2023, when the Supreme Court found 6-3 in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis that the First Amendment barred Colorado from using the state’s Anti-Discrimination Act to force a website designer to create wedding websites for same-sex couples. The high court said in the ruling that the state could not force a person to create content conveying a message that he or she disagreed with.
That ruling was viewed at the time as a broad free speech win that followed the Supreme Court’s narrower 2018 decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.
In that case, the justices sided with baker Jack Phillips, finding that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission had shown unconstitutional hostility toward his religious beliefs that the commission did not show toward other bakers.
«The Supreme Court found, at least at the time of Masterpiece Cakeshop, that Colorado’s state agency was acting in a way biased against a certain set of beliefs, and from what we can see that hasn’t changed in the intervening years,» Severino said. «Unfortunately, each time the Supreme Court has corrected them, they’ve only doubled down.»
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Baker Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, manages his shop in Lakewood, Colo., Aug. 15, 2018. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
Terry Schilling, president of the conservative American Principles, observed the trend in Colorado, saying in a statement provided to Fox News Digital that Democrats there «will stomp on the rights of anyone who stands in the way of the well-heeled gay and transgender lobby whether it is bakers, doctors, or desperate families.»
«It should not take the lengthy legal battles or the Supreme Court to rein in the liberal war against reality,» Schilling said. «That is why fed-up Colorado families are appealing straight to voters to protect children from extremist Democrats,» Schilling added, citing his organization’s efforts to pass conservative ballot initiatives in the state.
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Outside the First Amendment cases, Colorado has also been a testing ground for other highly polarizing legal fights that made it to the Supreme Court.
The justices in Trump v. Anderson unanimously reversed the state Supreme Court’s decision to remove President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential primary ballot over allegations that he had incited an insurrection, finding the state lacked the authority to remove him.
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Un triángulo amoroso y un crimen brutal: el caso de la ciclista asesinada por la novia de su amigo
En la noche del 11 de mayo de 2022, el silencio de una casa ubicada en la ciudad estadounidense de Austin, en Texas, se quebró de forma inesperada y brutal. Poco antes de las 22, una joven llamada Caitlin Cash encontró a su amiga gravemente herida en el piso. Tenía impactos de bala en diferentes partes del cuerpo, y no había señales de robo o de alguna pelea previa en el lugar. A primera vista, la escena indicaba que el crimen hablaba de algo personal.
La víctima era Moriah Wilson, una ciclista profesional de 25 años que había llegado a la ciudad para competir en una carrera. Horas antes, había salido a cenar con un amigo, como parte de una rutina normal. Sin embargo, en cuestión de horas, todo terminaría en un crimen que rápidamente captó la atención de la policía y de la opinión pública.
La autopsia confirmó lo que ya se sospechaba: había sido asesinada. La joven recibió tres disparos, dos en la cabeza y uno en el pecho, cuando ya estaba en el piso. No fue un ataque al azar, sino -según determinó la Justicia después- un crimen motivado por “celos”.
Una apasionada por el ciclismo
Moriah Wilson había nacido el 18 de mayo de 1996 en el estado de New Hampshire y crecido en Vermont, en una familia donde el deporte ocupaba un lugar central. Desde chica se destacó como esquiadora, pero con el tiempo encontró su verdadera pasión en el ciclismo.
Se graduó en el Dartmouth College con un título en Ingeniería, pero decidió apostar por una carrera profesional en el ciclismo de gravel, una disciplina exigente que combina rutas pavimentadas y terrenos irregulares.
Moriah Wilson era una apasionada del ciclismo y el deporte desde muy chica. (Foto: WSJ)
Sus allegados que la conocían bien la describían como una joven enfocada, amable y apasionada por lo que hacía. Antes de dedicarse por completo al deporte, había trabajado en Especialized, una empresa que fabrica bicicletas y accesorios para ciclistas.
Para 2022, a sus 25 años, su carrera estaba en ascenso: viajaba por distintas ciudades compitiendo y construyendo su nombre dentro del circuito. Su llegada a Austin tenía ese objetivo, aunque nunca se imaginó que ese viaje sería el último.
Los sospechosos
En las primeras horas de la investigación se descartó un robo o un ataque al azar. Por ello, la atención se centró rápidamente en el entorno cercano de la víctima, especialmente en Colin Strickland, el hombre con el que Wilson había pasado las horas previas a su muerte.
Strickland también era ciclista profesional y tiempo antes había mantenido una relación amorosa con la víctima, aunque luego habían quedado como amigos. Al momento del crimen, estaba en pareja con una mujer de 35 años llamada Kaitlin Armstrong.
Si bien en un principio negó conocer a Wilson, luego admitió que habían tenido un vínculo y que incluso había ocultado mensajes para evitar conflictos con su novia actual. Ese dato fue clave y los investigadores comenzaron a reconstruir una posible motivación.
Colin Strickland, ciclista y exnovio de Wilson, fue uno de los primeros sospechosos en la causa. (Foto: The Sun)
Posteriormente, las cámaras de seguridad dieron el siguiente indicio: un Jeep negro, vinculado a Armstrong, había sido captado cerca de la escena del crimen en el momento del asesinato. La evidencia balística reforzó la sospechas: una vaina encontrada en el lugar coincidía con una pistola que pertenecía a Armstrong.
A eso se sumaron testimonios que indicaban que la mujer estaba al tanto de la relación entre Strickland y Wilson y que había manifestado enojo e incluso intenciones violentas.
Armstrong fue detenida inicialmente, pero un error administrativo en la orden de detención permitió su liberación. Pero para ese entonces, ya era la principal sospechosa.
Días después, cuando la policía intentó avanzar nuevamente, descubrió que había desaparecido.
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La captura y la condena
La historia dio un giro inesperado cuando Kaitlin Armstrong logró escapar de Estados Unidos. Su plan consistió en usar el pasaporte de su hermana y viajar a Costa Rica, donde intentó empezar una nueva vida bajo una identidad falsa.
Durante 43 días estuvo prófuga de la Justicia: cambió su apariencia, se hizo cirugías estéticas, se tiñó el pelo y se movió entre distintos lugares. Sin embargo, un detalle terminó siendo clave: publicó un aviso en el que buscaba trabajo como instructora de yoga. Ese rastro permitió a los investigadores localizarla.
De esta manera, el 29 de junio de 2022 fue detenida en un hostal y extraditada a Estados Unidos. Kaitlin Armstrong fue detenida luego de permanecer prófuga por más de 40 días. (Foto: People)
El proceso judicial avanzó con demoras, pero finalmente el juicio comenzó en octubre de 2023. La fiscalía presentó un caso sólido basado en pruebas físicas, registros de cámaras, testimonios y el contexto de la relación entre los involucrados.
Detrás del crimen, los investigadores reconstruyeron un vínculo atravesado por “tensiones y celos”. Moriah Wilson había conocido a Colin Strickland en 2021, durante una carrera, y con el tiempo comenzaron una relación que, aunque breve, derivó luego en una amistad cercana. El antes y después de Kaitlin Armstrong tras las cirugías estéticas que se hizo para evadir a la Justicia. (Foto: People)
Sin embargo, Strickland mantenía una relación intermitente con Armstrong, con quien incluso compartía un negocio. Según la reconstrucción, el 11 de mayo de 2022, Wilson se reunió con él sin saber que Armstrong estaba al tanto de ese encuentro.
Para la Justicia, ese fue el punto de quiebre: la sospechosa, “consumida por los celos”, siguió a la joven hasta el departamento donde se alojaba y la asesinó a sangre fría.
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Poco antes de que termine el debate, Armstrong volvió a intentar escapar: logró huir brevemente durante un traslado médico, pero fue recapturada poco después.
El 16 de noviembre de 2023, la Justicia la declaró culpable de asesinato y la condenó a 90 años de prisión, con posibilidad de libertad condicional recién después de tres décadas.
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