Stephanie Kelton, Columnist

The Democrats’ Options for Repealing the Trump Tax Cut

No, this won’t be on the table until 2021 at the earliest. But the party’s candidates need to offer some solutions.

November 5, 2018 at 1:00 PM UTC

Stephanie Kelton is a professor of public policy and economics at Stony Brook University. She was the Democrats' chief economist on the staff of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee and an economic adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders.

They might get another chance.
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It’s not too soon to think about what the Democrats might do about the Republican tax cuts if they eventually win back power, maybe as early as 2020.

President Donald Trump thinks he knows the answer. He told voters at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, that their gains from the cuts would be in jeopardy if the Democrats had their way. They “will try to erase every single thing that we’ve achieved,” he warned.