Rep. Perry Claimed Last Summer’s Reconciliation Package Was a Working Families Tax Cut In Recent Interview

January 23, 2026

Harrisburg, PENNSYLVANIA — In an OANN interview with Matt Gaetz on Monday, Congressman Scott Perry claimed last summer’s Republican Tax Law was a “working family tax cut.”

Let’s take a look at the facts:

• Constitutes the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in U.S. history and threatens the basic needs of millions of Pennsylvanians.

• Supported bigger tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans at the expense of the most vulnerable. Experts found the bottom 20% of earners will save just 0.8% of their income - about $150 annually - while the top 20% will save more than 3x that, at 2.5%. In fact, the lowest earners will actually lose money overall, according to projections by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, due to cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.

• The top 1% will receive a $1 trillion tax cut over the next decade.

• Big corporations have received $16 billion in retroactive tax breaks just last year.

• Makes historic cuts to Medicaid, which over 180,000 of Congressman Perry’s constituents rely on. These cuts could result in the loss of tens of thousands of jobs across the Commonwealth and put hospitals and nursing homes at risk of closure, leaving Pennsylvanians hours away from or without access to critical care.

• Guts SNAP, critical food assistance that benefits over 120,000 of his constituents. These cuts threaten the very fate of food assistance in the Commonwealth, where 1 in 8 Pennsylvanians face food insecurity. It also harms Pennsylvania’s economy, as over 8 percent of all food and beverage purchases across the Commonwealth are paid for SNAP.

• Drives up the number of uninsured Americans in every state and every congressional district in the country with its massive cuts to Medicaid and ACA marketplace coverage, including 26,000 Pennsylvanians in PA-10.

“The facts are clear - this legislation is a billionaires’ and big corporations’ tax cut, at the expense of the working families Congressman Perry was elected to represent,” said Rachele Fortier, executive director of Affordable Pennsylvania. “We urge Congressman Perry to reverse these cuts to Medicaid and SNAP, restore health care tax credits that help constituents afford care, and fight for lower costs for working families.”

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