Sanders Rips 'Desperate' Right-Wingers for Taking His Tax Bill Comments 'Completely Out of Context'

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday accused Republicans of launching a “desperate” effort to “spin their disastrous tax plan” by taking some of his recent comments on the bill “completely out of context.”

In an interview with CNN‘s Jake Tapper on Sunday, Sanders said “it is a very good thing” that some middle-class Americans will see a temporary tax cut as a result of the GOP tax plan. “And that’s why we should have made the tax breaks for the middle class permanent,” Sanders added. “But what the Republicans did is make the tax breaks for corporations permanent, the tax cuts for the middle class temporary.”

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“The Trump-Republican tax plan is one of the worst pieces of legislation in the modern history of our country.”
—Sen. Bernie Sanders

Right-wing media outlets—from The Daily Caller to Breitbart—quickly seized upon Sanders’ comments, characterizing them as a kind of grudging endorsement of the $1.5 trillion dollar tax bill.

“Jake Tapper Gets Bernie Sanders to Admit the Middle-Class Tax Cuts In the GOP Bill Are ‘A Good Thing,'” blared The Daily Wire, an online publication edited by Ben Shapiro. Infowars, Townhall, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) also highlighted Sanders’ comments, usually de-emphasizing Sanders’ characterization of the tax cuts as a permanent gift to big business.

In a statement on Wednesday, Sanders aimed to “set the record straight,” slamming conservatives for distorting his words to conceal the harms their bill will inflict on millions of families.