{"id":1052518,"date":"2025-04-15T16:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1052518"},"modified":"2025-04-15T16:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:40:22","slug":"dnc-hosts-tax-day-press-call-on-trump-and-maga-gops-tax-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-hosts-tax-day-press-call-on-trump-and-maga-gops-tax-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Hosts Tax Day Press Call on Trump and MAGA GOP\u2019s Tax Scam\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, the DNC hosted a press call on Tax Day with <strong>Rep. Ayanna Pressley, DNC<\/strong> <strong>Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta,<\/strong> <strong>former Chief Economist of the United States Department of Labor<\/strong><strong> Heidi Shierholz, and impacted American Kirsten Grady <\/strong>to call out Donald Trump and Republicans\u2019 tax scam. Trump promised to lower costs on \u201cDay One,\u201d but his out-of-touch agenda is setting Americans\u2019 dollars on fire, skyrocketing costs, and putting the economy on the verge of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/04\/07\/trump-recession-inflation-job-losses-coming-ceos-say-cnbc-survey.html\">\u201cTrump recession<\/a>.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/graph\/?g=1HZFu\">grocery<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/data.bls.gov\/timeseries\/APU000072610\">electricity<\/a> costs reach record highs and consumer sentiment hits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/04\/11\/economy\/us-consumer-sentiment-april\/index.html\">historic lows<\/a>, Trump and MAGA Republicans only care about giving tax giveaways to billionaires and sticking working families with the bill. Democrats are fighting back against the GOP\u2019s disastrous proposals to make Trump\u2019s tax giveaways permanent and gut critical programs like SNAP and Medicaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Find highlights from the press call below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXcj6gS4gH05J_Fbj60NgUcenCmWysg5RJDG1ZgsUdGAg5DoWssq4VCS-jxHTpI8KByEFOYgHSPhruRSuvAP-1-4ZJMg3s6AXN8tlEjg5avilzb5RzhIH9knwZA6f9vhxCNkMIY?key=u97fWz-EBZZ1V7wNhUgFcwQR\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:466px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJust last week, Democrats introduced the Hands Off Medicaid and SNAP Act to stop the Republicans\u2019 devastating cuts from becoming law. Democrats across the country are mobilizing against the GOP\u2019s cruel agenda,\u201d<strong> said Rep. Ayanna Pressley. <\/strong>\u201cWe won\u2019t sit idly by while Trump rips away Americans\u2019 health care and forces families to go hungry. And I know my colleagues won\u2019t either. We\u2019ll continue to fight for a government rooted in real efficiency, one that works for everyone, not just for billionaires.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXdMXgHaWQPTenvCGGMSi77QK3-kNC9_YC6bm1aJ8X2mjAJrYARmIDw3m80zCn0ukGkFUWSr8L5nwyN9jVN8Ncof0KpUgausF2435dBIUuNvWc_9ASWatwYTit6aLSduxZ4DsIDp?key=u97fWz-EBZZ1V7wNhUgFcwQR\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:466px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump\u2019s tax plan is great for Donald Trump. It\u2019s a death sentence, frankly, for many small business owners who are just trying to take the dream that they had and operate a business, hire their neighbors. It is a kick in the shins for so many parents across this country who are hanging on by their fingernails, who are trying to do everything they can to position themselves and their families and their kids to have it a little bit better than they do,\u201d <strong>said DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta. <\/strong>\u201cBut you know what, it\u2019s great for Donald Trump, it\u2019s great for Donald Trump\u2019s boss, Elon Musk, it\u2019s great for the people who can afford memberships to Mar-a-Lago, it\u2019s great for them. But it\u2019s not great for us, the American people.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXd0rG0zyeJJF_0Gdtnd31lsRmUmMLuA-umlcEhJDX35NSs9ykXuD_Wvul6aw56Yg7nVcfFuMaGy_oF5DNCs-wEiokfk6Wlkr-w1yVyp4Pz-C7fGDhkF5sSFAAKZt_F5-Ki--4sX?key=u97fWz-EBZZ1V7wNhUgFcwQR\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:466px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe need a tax system that demands a far more equitable contribution from the rich and invests those revenues in the foundations of shared prosperity, public education, infrastructure, health care, clean energy, social insurance,\u201d said <strong>former Chief Economist of the United States Department of Labor<\/strong><strong> Heidi Shierholz<\/strong>. \u201cThey are essential if we want an economy that actually works for working people of this country, but this administration and its cronies in Congress to their great shame are doing the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXet81g_29QwhgJxKt_fY0pKYLRvCX51Hv0nhWXl_KonvMuyNzf24VkIaMLPv-4O-DL31qVo7tuvmY3I5RrSc_QDWcH3IppZmBXg1dVv-_KdQkRWc0jy3JlEMvIrK6RQnQiMn5wH?key=u97fWz-EBZZ1V7wNhUgFcwQR\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:466px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump and his Republican allies are putting programs like Medicaid and SNAP on the chopping block because they want to fund another round of tax handouts for billionaires. I have been one of the 79 million Americans on Medicaid and one of the millions of others who rely on SNAP just to survive,\u201d <strong>said impacted American Kirsten Grady.<\/strong> \u201cTrump spent his campaign promising to \u2018stand up\u2019 for working families, including families like mine. How is gutting SNAP and Medicaid standing up for working families? How is raising costs to give billionaires another handout standing up for working families? In short, it\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the DNC hosted a press call on Tax Day with Rep. Ayanna Pressley, DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta, former Chief Economist of the United States Department of Labor Heidi Shierholz, and impacted American Kirsten Grady to call out Donald Trump and Republicans\u2019 tax scam. Trump promised to lower costs on \u201cDay One,\u201d but his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC Hosts Tax Day Press Call on Trump and MAGA GOP\u2019s Tax Scam\u00a0 - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-hosts-tax-day-press-call-on-trump-and-maga-gops-tax-scam\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-15T20:40:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-15T20:40:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXcj6gS4gH05J_Fbj60NgUcenCmWysg5RJDG1ZgsUdGAg5DoWssq4VCS-jxHTpI8KByEFOYgHSPhruRSuvAP-1-4ZJMg3s6AXN8tlEjg5avilzb5RzhIH9knwZA6f9vhxCNkMIY?key=u97fWz-EBZZ1V7wNhUgFcwQR\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-hosts-tax-day-press-call-on-trump-and-maga-gops-tax-scam\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-hosts-tax-day-press-call-on-trump-and-maga-gops-tax-scam\/\",\"name\":\"DNC Hosts Tax Day Press Call on Trump and MAGA GOP\u2019s Tax Scam\u00a0 - 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