Published June 22, 2025
Polling increasingly shows that the GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is unpopular. There’s a simple way to reverse that and make it a political winner: Let the tax cuts for the top two income tax brackets expire.
Democrats have followed their predictable playbook in attacking the bill. They sidestep the tax cuts for many working-class voters and the precise proposed changes to Medicaid and food stamps to focus on the larger picture. They say the OBBB cuts spending on programs for the poor and working class to fund tax cuts for the rich. That’s the same class-warfare rhetoric they have used …
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Henry Olsen, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, studies and provides commentary on American politics. His work focuses on how America’s political order is being upended by populist challenges, from the left and the right. He also studies populism’s impact in other democracies in the developed world.
