“President Donald Trump’s tax law has “tax breaks for billionaires, permanent; tax breaks for everybody else, expire.”
What PolitiFact found
Some of the law’s provisions benefitting taxpayers of ordinary means — including tax cuts for tipped and overtime income — are set to expire in 2028. But several of the bill’s other key elements are permanent and affect people of all income levels, including its extension of the 2017 tax cuts.
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In short
Hakeem Jeffries (House Minority Leader) made this claim around 2 July 2025. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 July 2025, 6 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Hakeem Jeffries has 9 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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