Rebutted by The New York Times analysis of the Senate GOP tax plan unveiled Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was forced to recant his claim "nobody in the middle-class is going to get a tax increase."

"I misspoke on that," McConnell told the Times on Friday. "You can't guarantee that absolutely no one sees a tax increase."

McConnell: "I misspoke on that. You can't guarantee that absolutely no one sees a tax increase, but what we are doing is targeting levels of income and looking at the average in those levels and the average will be tax relief for the average taxpayer in each of those segments." — Jim Tankersley (@jimtankersley) November 10, 2017

McConnell made his statement to the Times' tax and economics reporter Jim Tankersley, who tweeted McConnell's full response to the Times report headlined: "Senate Tax Bill Rewards the Rich More Than the Middle Class."

Tankersley later tweeted a confirmation "the Senate bill passes the McConnell test," weighing the tax brackets' impacts on average instead of individually, which McConnell admitted Friday is impossible to guarantee.

Our analysis suggests the Senate bill passes this McConnell test -- ave taxes fall at each income segment. But millions in mid class see tax increase. — Jim Tankersley (@jimtankersley) November 10, 2017

McConnell's original claim was made last week to MSNBC's Hugh Hewitt.

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After failing to follow the House in passing a repeal and replacement of Obamacare, the Senate is also expected to mark up its current tax plan in hopes of allowing it to pass on the simple, narrow majority 52-48 held by the GOP in the Senate. Movement there has been difficult for Sen. McConnell and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon this week has called for McConnell's resignation after tax reform.