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In a press call earlier this week, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) and Representative Ryan Mackenzie (R-Pa.) touted the Working Families Tax Cuts as tens of millions of Americans are reaping the benefits this tax season. Read excerpts from the Daily Signal’s coverage of the call below. 

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The Daily Signal

Virginia Grace McKinnon

April 15, 2026

The GOP is keeping tax policy in the headlines with a successful Tax Day, as Americans can expect an average $3,000 refund. Members are now looking ahead to how they can continue to be the party of “working Americans.”

During a press call about President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) — now commonly referred to as the Working Families Tax Cuts Act by Republican members — House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., told The Daily Signal that the GOP will never waiver from the understanding that “the individual is the person best positioned to make decisions about their own lives and what to do with their own money.”

“Democrats had the opportunity,” Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa., chimed in, referencing the last administration.

“Costs went up for seniors and taxes went up for seniors. In fact, we saw so many times, time and again, that the investments that were promised for these working families and all throughout our community never came to fruition,” Mackenzie said.

Emmer celebrated Mackenzie for being one of the champions behind the increased and permanent child tax credit included in the OBBB.

“It is Republicans that have delivered on these promises that we made on the campaign trail, and people are seeing and feeling more of this money back in their pockets this tax season,” Mackenzie concluded.