Nancy Pelosi in Arizona to argue Donald Trump's tax cuts will devastate working families

Working Arizonans will suffer "devastating effects" from the tax cuts signed into law by President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is telling Democrats here.

In a sign that the party sees Arizona as a place where it can compete in November, Pelosi is visiting Phoenix on Tuesday.

During her stop she'll make time for talks with the liberal Arizona Center for Economic Progress and with The Arizona Republic. She will be joined by U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz.

Pelosi is scheduled to participate in a livestream on azcentral.com and Facebook, moderated by The Republic on Tuesday afternoon.

Pelosi has offered scathing criticism of Trump's signature legislative accomplishment: the $1.5 trillion tax cut package that passed in December. That measure permanently reduces the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent and includes temporary tax cuts for individuals that vary based on geography and income level.

Pelosi has likened the cuts to "crumbs" for workers when compared with what business owners receive under the plan.

"In terms of the bonus that corporate America received versus the crumbs that they are giving to workers to kind of put the schmooze on is so pathetic. It’s so pathetic," Pelosi said during a press briefing last month in Washington. "And I would hope that with their big advantage of bringing money home at a very low rate, that they would invest in infrastructure and things. But our experience has been that they will do dividends. They will do stock buybacks and things like that. I think it’s insignificant."

Trump and other GOP figures have ridiculed her as out of touch with ordinary Americans. "She called it crumbs, when people are getting $2,000 and $3,000 and $1,000. That’s not crumbs. That’s a lot of money," Trump responded.

Pelosi is taking her message across the country, from Florida to Massachusetts to Arizona in an effort to boost Democratic prospects for the fall.

Democrats need to win a net 24 additional seats in the House to retake control of the chamber and Arizona could offer a chance for one of them: the seat currently held by U.S. Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz. McSally is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.

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