Fact-check: “Since Reagan the GOP have been the party for and by the wealthy.”
Verdict: Partly True (62% confidence)
The documented record — CBO distributional analyses of GOP tax legislation, FEC donor data, and peer-reviewed research on donor-base composition — shows that Republican tax and deregulation policy since 1981 has consistently delivered disproportionate benefits to upper-income households and corporations, and that the party's fundraising has grown increasingly concentrated among high-income donors. Those are real, measurable patterns. But 'for and by the wealthy' is a characterization that goes…
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