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All Democrats in Congress voted against tax cuts.

Posted by Badlands Media, Checked Updated

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Badlands MediaOct 15, 2026
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The record supports that no Democrat in Congress voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which contained the no-tax-on-tips, overtime and Social Security provisions. Read as a claim that Democrats voted against the tax cuts themselves, it is misleading, because FactCheck.org reports many Democrats said they supported those provisions while opposing the broader bill.

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… If I didn't have the look at this, look at this crowd. I mean, we just set this up a little while ago, and you can't even see the end of it. But now the radical left Democrats want to burn it all down, everything that we talked about, and much more. Every single Democrat in Congress voted against our record-setting tax cuts. Every there wasn't one that voted to approve it. Every Democrat in Congress voted against our tax cuts. They voted against no tax on tips. They voted against no tax on overtime. …
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What we found

Contradicts. FactCheck.org says the claim that every Democrat voted against all three provisions (tips, overtime, Social Security) is misleading, because many Democrats said they supported those tax cuts and would work to make them permanent while opposing the larger bill.[1]

Supports. AP reports that 'not one Democrat voted for' the One Big Beautiful Bill, and the Republican Study Committee says every Democrat in Congress voted against the Working Families Tax Cuts Act.[2][3]

Context. Republican-aligned sources (the White House release, the Republican leader's research page and a House floor statement) repeat the 'every Democrat voted against' framing, but they are partisan and add no independent record of how individual Democrats voted beyond the roll call they cite.[4][5][6]

Sources

6 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 4 primary

  1. 1FactChecking Claims from Trump’s Midterm Ralliesfactcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
  2. 2'Big beautiful bill' is GOP's signature achievement, with mixed resultsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
  3. 3Every Single Democrat Voted Against American Families.rsc-pfluger.house.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
  4. 4President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cuts (Which Every ...whitehouse.gov · primary source · cited for: context
  5. 5Congressional Recordcongress.gov · primary source · cited for: context
  6. 6Democrats Learn to Love the Tax Cuts They Voted Againstrepublicanleader.senate.gov · primary source · cited for: context

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