The corporate tax cuts that Congress passed last year are not helping workers, Sen. Marco Rubio said, refuting a key Republican talking point.

“ ‘There is still a lot of thinking on the right that if big corporations are happy, they’re going to take the money they’re saving and reinvest it in American workers. In fact they bought back shares, a few gave out bonuses; there’s no evidence whatsoever that the money’s been massively poured back into the American worker.’ ”

In an interview with the Economist published Monday, the Florida Republican admitted what Democrats, analysts and nonpartisan experts had claimed from the beginning — that the bulk of the 2017 tax overhaul would benefit the wealthy.

“We couldn’t have said it any better ourselves,” said Matt House, spokesman for Sen. Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat who is the Senate minority leader.

Last fall, Rubio had been publicly wary of reducing the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% but ended up voting for the bill after it included an expansion of the child tax credit.

“As he said when the tax law passed, cutting the corporate tax rate will make America a more competitive place to do business, but he tried to balance that with an even larger child tax credit for working Americans,” Rubio’s spokeswoman said in a statement Monday.

The White House had claimed at the time that the tax cuts would spur companies to create more jobs and that American workers would benefit from burgeoning corporate coffers, with incomes getting a $4,000 boost, the Trump administration predicted, on average.

As early as October, Jared Bernstein, who had served as chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden, dismissed those forecasts as “trickle-down fairy dust.”

A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found most Americans believe the tax overhaul was a bad idea, and a Politico/Morning Consult poll last week found most voters had not seen an increase in their paychecks as a result of the tax bill.

Rubio went on to tell the Economist that more flexible benefits and job training need to be available to workers. “If we basically say everyone is on their own and the market’s going to take care of it, we will rip the country apart, because millions of good, hard-working people lack the means to adapt,” he said.