Utah GOP Senate candidates want Trump tax cuts extended

The four Republican U.S. Senate candidates on the June primary ballot all agreed during a panel discussion Friday that former President Donald Trump’s nearly $4 trillion tax cuts should not be allowed to expire next year. During the forum, Curtis said “the elephant in the room” is what he described as an $8 trillion increase in the national deficit under the former president and suggested candidates need to ask themselves if they’re “willing to say no to President Trump when he submits a budget that spends trillions of dollars that we don’t have.” Saying he voted against legislation that would have boosted the debt despite being personally lobbied by Trump, Curtis added, “If we’re honest as Republicans, we own as much of this as the Democrats. The best we can say is we don’t spend as much as they do. But we own a lot of this. In reality, President Trump owns a lot of this.”