Oh My: Nevada Dem Rep. Steven Horsford Suffers A Screaming Meltdown About Trump Tax Cuts

Posted • April 10, 2025: I don't think I've written about Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) before. But with his comments on Wednesday, he seems to be making a serious bid for silliest Democrat comment of the week, and that's a tough call in a week with Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) spouting off. I think he was a bit ticked off that hardly anyone seemed to be there as he was trying to grill U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer about tariffs. But this was definitely a truly bad, unprofessional meltdown from Horsford. Nevada Dem Rep. Steven Horsford actually says passing "the biggest tax cut in history" will "screw America." Are Democrats insane, do they hate the American people, or both? Imagine thinking a tax cut will "screw America." That's the first problem with his thinking here. Other problems? The "tax cut" was already passed under Trump in his first term. What was going on here was extending it, so the American people won't now get a huge increase.

If the Democrats had won in November, the Democrats would doubtless have tried to saddle the American people with that increase. Horsford appears to be arguing for something that would have hurt a lot of Americans. But he's talking about it being "on the backs of the American people"? To paraphrase him in a more polite manner, what the heck? As Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) and even liberal media acknowledged, Trump cut taxes for most Americans, not just the "rich" as Democrats claim. (…)

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