Three of the frontrunners in the Democratic presidential primary race made false or misleading statements about President Donald Trump’s tax cuts during the second night of the debates in Miami.
Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) claimed that 83 percent of the tax cuts’ benefits go to the “1 percent,” but omitted that the numbers are a hypothetical estimate of what would happen in 2027, when the tax cuts for individuals expire. Republicans passed a bill in the House last year to make the cuts permanent, but the Senate never took up the measure because more than a handful of Democratic votes are needed to clear the 60-vote threshold.
