Hawley says working-class Americans should get payroll tax cut [View all]

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Source: The Hill

04/15/25 11:10 AM ET


Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who could emerge as a key vote on President Trump’s agenda, says working-class Americans should be able to take tax deductions on their payroll taxes, which would save thousands of dollars for families earning less than $80,000 per year.

Hawley, who has already come out against steep cuts to Medicaid, is laying down another marker for lower- and middle-income individuals and families in his home state by arguing that working-class Missourians should also see their taxes cut this year. “The negotiations over President Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ budget bill have to date included surprisingly little talk of tax cuts for the people who need them most: America’s working class,” Hawley wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post.

“Blue-collar workers haven’t gotten a real pay raise in decades. Mortgages are unaffordable. Rent is unaffordable. Groceries are unaffordable,” Hawley wrote. “All of this takes a toll on the spirit as much as the checkbook.” Hawley says Republicans can start repairing the eroding buying-power of working-class Americans by “giving them the biggest working-class tax cut in our history.”

He says they should make the largest income tax credits — the home mortgage deduction, the child tax credit and the charitable deduction — available to all Americans who pay payroll taxes, which fund Social Security and Medicare.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5249484-sen-hawley-tax-relief-proposal/