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 helium served arsenic vice president successful Trump's archetypal administration, not to rise the taxation complaint connected affluent Americans.

Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the signature home accomplishment of his archetypal 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 the taxation reductions connected the affluent sunset arsenic a mode to wage for the remainder of the 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 the wealthiest Americans arsenic portion of an wide fund reconciliation package. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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

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

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

"Any proposition that I've heard among immoderate successful and astir the medication that we rise the apical borderline rate, the alleged millionaires tax, would beryllium an tremendous taxation summation connected tiny concern 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 the John F. Kennedy Profile successful Courage Award during a ceremonial astatine the JFK Library connected May 4, 2025, successful Boston, is urging President Trump against raising taxes connected the wealthiest Americans. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

And the erstwhile vice president, successful an interrogation with Fox News Digital this week, argued that "the bulk of radical 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 wealth backmost into their company. If you rise that apical margin, it would beryllium an tremendous taxation summation connected tiny concern America."

"Let’s marque each the Trump-Pence taxation cuts permanent. That’s a mode to truly laic a instauration to turn the system successful the days ahead," Pence urged.

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

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

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

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But helium argued that "I genuinely bash judge that immoderate of the different steps the president is taking distant from that blimpish docket should beryllium a interest that would enactment against his bequest and yet the occurrence of our enactment oregon our country. And truthful we're going to proceed to beryllium a dependable against them.

"I truly bash judge that for prosperity … for the occurrence of our country, we request to instrumentality to those time-honored principles of strong defense, American enactment connected the satellite stage, little government, little taxes, accepted motivation values and the close to life, and I’m going to beryllium a dependable for that," Pence added.