Keeping Your Pay Act
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Keeping Your Pay Act has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Pod Save America. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Cory BookerDemocratic senator from New Jersey
Booker argues Democrats need five big ideas delivered within the first three months of power so voters feel immediate change.
“Five big ideas. that we in the first three months do and everybody feels a real change in their lives”
Pod Save America: Taxing Cory Booker's Patience (Apr 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:12:05
Booker rejects the anti-tax label, saying he is instead opposed to working-class people being financially squeezed.
“I am not anti-tax. I am pro-working people keeping more of their money”
Pod Save America: Taxing Cory Booker's Patience (Apr 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:11:44
Booker says the plan costs nothing because it is funded by eliminating corporate tax avoidance schemes.
“it doesn't cost anything if you are taking away all of these uh tax avoidance schemes of the largest corporations and you use it to fund this, then it costs nothing”
Pod Save America: Taxing Cory Booker's Patience (Apr 5, 2026) · Listen from 1:01:21
Booker says his plan would cut child poverty in half and give a single mother earning $60,000 nearly $6,000 more.
“So this cuts child poverty in half. This cuts the overall poverty rate, and I've seen different estimates by people who've run the numbers from 10% to greater”
Pod Save America: Taxing Cory Booker's Patience (Apr 5, 2026) · Listen from 50:53
Jon LovettCo-host of Pod Save America; diarization split of the same speaker during the economics segment
Lovett argues zeroing out income tax fails to address the underlying economic problem that wages are too low.
“it doesn't address the underlying problem, which we've built an economy in which it's there that people are not making enough to get by”
Pod Save America: Taxing Cory Booker's Patience (Apr 5, 2026) · Listen from 53:39
Podcasts
- Pod Save America · 1 episode
Episodes
Taxing Cory Booker's PatiencePod Save America · Apr 5, 2026 · 1 h 17 min
Senator Cory Booker joins Jon Lovett to debate his $75,000 standard deduction tax plan, the Iran war, AIPAC, and Pam Bondi's firing.