Sen. Chris Van Hollen Wants To Give 130 Million Americans a Tax Cuts

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🗓️ 17 March 2026

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Senator Van Hollen discusses how his bill, The Working Americans' Tax Cut Act, would tackle rising prices by raising taxes on billionaires and giving a huge tax cut to 130 million working Americans. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D. MD) made headlines in the national spotlight when he appeared on the Find Out Podcast this week after participating in our State Of The Union livestream a few weeks ago. Senator Van Hollen returns to the show to cover two big issues on everyone's minds: affordability and war with Iran. First off, Senator Van Hollen discusses how his bill, The Working Americans' Tax Cut Act, would tackle rising prices by raising taxes on billionaires and giving a huge tax cut to 130 million working Americans. The bill has 19 Senate co-sponsors and is endorsed by the AFL-CIO, the Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association. Van Hollen explains how it works. We also discuss that Trump's disastrous war with Iran is not only costing us a billion dollars a day but is also costing the lives of 13 servicemen and 2,000 civilians including 15 school girls. Van Hollen points out that Trump, who lied about being the "anti-war President," keeps changing his reasoning and rationale for starting a war with Iran and even Trump voters in his home state of Maryland are turning on him. 👕 **Merch** made in the USA & union-made: https://findoutpodcast.com 📬 Subscribe to bonus content: https://findoutpodcast.substack.com 📱 Follow us everywhere: @FindOutPodcast 📣 Share this episode & tag us #FindOutPodcast 📥 Send us feedback and tips: hello@findoutpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Find Out podcast. We've got a great show for you today.
0:12.1	We have Senator Chris Van Hollen, the senior senator from Maryland. Senator, it's great to have you today.
0:17.7	It's good to be back with you guys. Thanks. Yeah, we were just joking before that we
0:21.0	seem to see you every week or two, so we're glad to see you again. And there's always good
0:25.4	stuff to talk about. And I want to dive into this bill that you just released last week,
0:31.0	which is called the, sorry, I cannot see without my glasses oh the working americans tax cut the working
0:40.0	americans tax cut which has an oppressive uh number of sponsors uh and also groups that are endorsing
0:46.4	this so senator this is a unique bill from democrats you don't usually see like eliminating
0:51.4	taxes for a wide swath of people why don't you tell us what this bill is and
0:56.2	what it could do for people who are really getting squeezed by Trump's tariffs and a slowing
1:02.5	economy? Well, the fundamental idea behind this bill is exactly a recognition that people are
1:10.5	working harder than ever and still being squeezed.
1:14.3	So people are making a paycheck, but because of the high costs and prices that they're facing,
1:21.0	they're just struggling to get by. And so this is the Working Americans Tax Cut Bill,
1:25.8	and the idea is essentially if you're making a living wage, in other words, just enough to support yourself or yourself and the family, then you shouldn't be paying federal income taxes.
1:39.6	You should be essentially able to keep more of what you earn in order to pay your bills and,
1:46.5	you know, have a dignified life for yourself and your family. That's the fundamental idea.
1:51.7	130 million Americans will benefit. They'll have a little bit more of their paycheck to keep.
1:58.0	It is fully paid for an offset by a surtax on millionaires, right?
2:02.5	Starting with a 5% tax on the first dollar over a million dollars a year. So if you're
2:09.0	making over a million dollars a year, on that first dollar over a million, you'll pay 5%.
2:13.8	And it's a little escalating surtax. That about 1.5 trillion and it provides the revenue to
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