“If the “Big, Beautiful” tax and spending bill doesn’t pass, “there will be a 68% tax increase.”
What PolitiFact found
If the 2017 tax law is not extended through passage of the "Big Beautiful Bill," taxes will increase, but by far less than President Donald Trump said. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center projects that the increase would be about 7.5% overall.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (president) made this claim around 5 June 2025. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 June 2025, 5 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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