In the early morning hours of March 6 as the Senate voted on the $1.9 trillion COVID package ended, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced a final amendment which included text that would ban states from cutting taxes until 2024 if they take any federal funds from the package.
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Senator Mike Braun (R-Ind.) on Thursday introduced the Let States Cut Taxes Act, a bill to make sure Americans can keep more of what they earn through state-level tax cuts.
“Democrats are trying to ban states from cutting taxes with a sneaky amendment to the $1.9 trillion so-called COVID relief package,” Sen. Braun said. “Not only did this blue state bailout bill penalize states for reopening by calculating state funds based on unemployment, now they are trying to use it as a back door to ban states from cutting taxes. My bill would make sure they don’t get away with it.”