Fox’s Trish Regan Trashes Rubio Over Tax Law Reversal: ‘He Is Trying to Divide the Republican Party’

Fox Business Network’s Trish Regan took Sen. Marco Rubio to task Tuesday after the Florida senator said “there is no evidence whatsoever” that average Americans have benefited from Republicans’ tax reform legislation, despite the fact that Rubio praised the new law just two weeks ago.

Sitting alongside President Donald Trump in his home state of Florida on April 16, Rubio praised the Republican tax bill, telling the president, “I want to thank you for fighting for the American worker, because behind all these businesses, they’re going to be the first ones to tell you, is the American worker.”

“The American worker has been forgotten for far too long, whether it’s taxes, whether it’s jobs sent to other countries this tax reform is about them,” Rubio added.

Regan played the clip of Rubio from two weeks ago just before quoting the senator as saying this week “there is no evidence whatsoever” that the law has helped average American workers. The Fox Business host challenged the lawmaker on his apparent flip-flop by noting that multiple companies have announced bonuses and pay raises for thousands of workers because of the new tax law.

“I don’t know why you’re saying this hasn’t helped the American worker. Maybe you don’t know either, Marco? Maybe you need to think long and hard about who you are and what you actually believe in, Marco. Because I thought you were a guy who liked lower taxes,” Regan said. She added that lower taxes “seemed to be something Marco once believed in but now perhaps because it is beneficial to him politically, he is trying to divide the Republican Party.”

Regan further pointed out that “the Democrats are running with” Rubio’s statement. “Already Chuck Schumer‘s team put out an email saying ‘What? Marco Rubio said what?'”

“You will hear Democrat after Democrat after Democrat use this and say, see, we told you tax reform is doing nothing. We told you it would just go to big corporations and wealthy people and wouldn’t matter to the average American. But I’m going to tell you it’s a fact, it does matter to the average American,” Regan said.

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