I would work to rescind portions of that cut, like the elimination of the estate tax, to help fund my priority areas.
Work to rescind portions of the Bush tax cut, including the estate tax repeal, to help fund priority areas.
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Evidence
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The Republican plan also included all the revenue from the current estate tax. ... Republicans want to give the very wealthiest households a $269 billion dollar tax cut by repealing the estate tax, while still refusing to close a single special-interest loophole to pay for it. ... The House Democratic Budget is focused on the priorities of the American people ... and we do it in a fiscally responsible way.
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The bill would return the estate tax to 2009 levels ... and depositing all of the revenues from this tax into the Social Security Trust Fund.
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This bill returns the estate tax to 2009 levels and invests those funds in Americans' retirement security. ... legislation to improve the solvency of the Social Security Trust Fund with revenue generated by undoing Republicans' major cuts to the estate tax in 2017 and 2025.
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Van Hollen reintroduced a bill to undo estate-tax cuts and return the estate tax to 2009 levels, with the revenue dedicated to Social Security.
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Beyer said the Working Americans' Tax Cut Act would give working families tax relief funded by a tiered surtax on millionaires, and the Senate companion was introduced by Van Hollen.
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Last Action Date Listed March 25, 2026 Action Mr. Van Hollen introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to return the estate, gift, and generation skipping transfer tax to 2009 levels, and for other purposes.
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the taxes imposed by subtitle B of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
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Van Hollen | Van Hollen | Democratic | MD | Yea
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S. 4139, S. 4178, S. 4181, S. 4196, S. 4222, S. 4226
Assessments
Van Hollen did make repeated, concrete efforts to roll back estate-tax cuts and redirect the revenue to priorities like Social Security, including sponsoring later Senate legislation. But there is no evidence that rescinding the Bush tax cut portions, including estate-tax repeal, was actually enacted or completed through his own office actions, so the promised outcome was not delivered. Because the strongest documented activity came after his House service, the timing is later_term.
Van Hollen promised in the 2002 federal House context to work to rescind portions of the Bush tax cuts, including estate-tax repeal, and redirect revenue to priorities. During his House service, portions of the Bush-era tax cuts were in fact allowed to expire or were rolled back for higher-income taxpayers, and the estate tax repeal was not made permanent. The evidence also shows he repeatedly opposed estate-tax repeal and advanced legislation to restore estate-tax revenue for public priorities, including later as senator. Because the promised outcome was framed as working toward rescission and parts of the Bush tax cuts were reversed while he remained in federal office, this counts as delivered in the same House service period, though not as a full repeal of all Bush tax cuts.