Trump's First Vice President Urges His Old Boss Against Raising Taxes On Wealthy Americans

Former Vice President Mike Pence has a connection for his aged boss.

Pence is urging President Donald Trump, nether whom he served arsenic vice president successful Trump's first administration, not to raise nan taxation complaint connected able Americans.

Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, nan signature home accomplishment of his first White House term, is scheduled to expire this twelvemonth if it's not extended by Congress.

The Trump White House and immoderate legislature Republicans for weeks person mulled letting nan taxation reductions connected nan able sunset arsenic a measurement to salary for nan remainder of nan tax cuts arsenic good arsenic Trump's different pricey second-term priorities. 

WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ASKING SPEAKER JOHNSON TO DO 

President Donald Trump has urged House Speaker Mike Johnson to beryllium unfastened to immoderate taxation increases connected nan wealthiest Americans arsenic portion of an wide fund reconciliation package. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

And nan president, during a Wednesday telephone call, pushed House Speaker Mike Johnson to raise taxes connected nan highest income earners and adjacent nan carried liking loophole successful nan reconciliation process, Fox News Digital confirmed. The improvement was first reported Thursday by Punchbowl News.

A root acquainted pinch Trump's reasoning said Trump is considering allowing nan complaint connected individuals making $2.5 cardinal aliases much to summation by 2.6%, from 37% to 39.6%.

But Pence, a fiscal blimpish and fund hawk during his agelong governmental profession successful nan House of Representatives, arsenic Indiana politician and arsenic vice president, powerfully cautioned against upping nan rates connected nan highest earners.

"Any proposal that I've heard among immoderate successful and astir nan management that we raise nan apical separator rate, nan alleged millionaires tax, would beryllium an tremendous taxation summation connected mini business owners crossed America," Pence said. "It needs to beryllium opposed."

WHAT MIKE PENCE TOLD FOX NEWS IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW THIS WEEK

Former Vice President Mike Pence, seen receiving nan John F. Kennedy Profile successful Courage Award during a ceremonial astatine nan JFK Library connected May 4, 2025, successful Boston, is urging President Trump against raising taxes connected nan wealthiest Americans. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

And nan erstwhile vice president, successful an question and reply pinch Fox News Digital this week, based on that "the mostly of group that record taxes of a cardinal dollars are simply individuals that ain businesses, and they record their taxes arsenic an individual, but past plow that money backmost into their company. If you raise that apical margin, it would beryllium an tremendous taxation summation connected mini business America."

"Let’s make each nan Trump-Pence taxation cuts permanent. That’s a measurement to really laic a instauration to turn nan system successful nan days ahead," Pence urged.

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Pence, who was interviewed successful Boston aft receiving nan John F. Kennedy Profiles successful Courage award, gave "President Trump each nan in installments successful nan world for an historical triumph past November, and for sparing nan state 1 much wide Democrat administration."

Former Vice President Mike Pence shakes hands pinch then-President-elect Donald Trump earlier a authorities ceremonial work for erstwhile President Jimmy Carter astatine nan Washington National Cathedral connected Jan. 9, 2025. (MANDEL NGAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

He besides praised Trump "not only for his victory, but for securing our confederate border, for restoring morale and recruitment successful our military, for taking nan conflict to nan Houthis."

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But he based on that "I genuinely do judge that immoderate of nan different steps nan president is taking distant from that blimpish schedule should beryllium a interest that would activity against his bequest and yet nan occurrence of our statement aliases our country. And truthful we're going to proceed to beryllium a sound against them.

"I really do judge that for prosperity … for nan occurrence of our country, we request to instrumentality to those time-honored principles of strong defense, American activity connected nan world stage, little government, little taxes, accepted civilized values and nan correct to life, and I’m going to beryllium a sound for that," Pence added.