'I don't think making us less competitive, less attractive, and taking more of what people earn will ultimately be the answer here,' Rep. Kevin Brady told CNBC on Friday.
, helped put the U.S. economy in a robust position going into the coronavirus crisis. Brady was chairman of the committee three years ago when Republicans controlled the House and Senate.
"I still think the worse thing we could do would be to reverse those policies because I think they were key to us having this strong economy. They're going to be even more important going forward," Brady said Friday. Brady said that letting workers "keep more of what they earned" is itself a boost to wages, and he argued the overall strength of the economy also helped push wages higher and leads to more benefits for workers. He noted that workers on the lower-end of the pay scale were seeingThere is some disagreement over the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which went into effect in 2018.
The coronavirus has brought widespread economic damage and resulted in a large government rescue effort, both in fiscal measures from Congress and
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