CNN's "New Day" anchors Alisyn Camerota and John Berman mocked President Donald Trump on Tuesday for believing his new proposal to cut taxes for middle class families would pass before the election; however, Trump noted on Monday that any vote on the proposal would have to take place after the election.
On Saturday, Trump teased a new tax cut proposal for middle class families. By Monday, Trump gave a few more details to reporters about the new proposal. He said a resolution will be released in the upcoming weeks and said he will go through Congress to get them enacted. He also acknowledged that a vote on the proposal would happen after the midterm elections.
"We're putting in a resolution sometime in the next week and a half or two weeks," Trump said. "We're giving a middle-income tax reduction of 10 percent ... I'm going through Congress. We won't have time to do the vote. We'll do the vote later. We'll do the vote after the election."
Trump's admission that the vote would have to be after the November elections didn't stop the CNN anchors from mocking the president on Tuesday morning.
CNN reporter Abby Phillip did a segment on Trump's tax cut comments.
"President Trump is also pushing these tax cuts at a time when the Republicans are coming under scrutiny for soaring deficits, hitting about $779 billion over the next six years, but also Congress is not in session. The chances of tax cuts passing before the midterm elections are slim to none, John and Alisyn," Phillip said.
"Actually, the chances are none to none. Congress isn't there to pass a tax cut," Berman said. "He just can't say that there is going to be a 10 percent tax cut before November."
"Of course not," Camerota agreed.
"Which is what he's been saying," Berman said.
"No, but he's just talking about his concept for this that may not ever result in anything," Camerota said.
Trump never explicitly said the tax cuts would be enacted and passed before the midterm elections. At a Saturday rally in Nevada, Trump first talked about a possibility of a new tax cut and was initially unclear about the timeline.
"We are looking at putting in a very major tax cut for middle-income people. And if we do that, it'll be sometime just prior, I would say, to November," Trump said. "I would say sometime around the first of November, maybe a little before then."
It was unclear at that time if Trump meant a proposal would be released or a new law would be passed before November. Trump's comments to reporters on Monday cleared the confusion by saying a vote would happen after the election.
Trump repeated that the new tax cut would go into effect next year at his rally in Texas on Monday night.
Berman and Camerota's own network acknowledged Trump's comments in an article published Monday night.
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