A group of congressional Democrats and Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday highlighted dozens of profitable U.S. corporations that have paid their executives more than they’ve paid in federal income taxes in recent years, a problem that the lawmakers attributed in large part to former President Donald Trump’s massive tax-cut package that Republicans are working to extend.

“In the first five years following the 2017 giveaway, 35 companies raked in $277 billion in domestic profits and paid their executives $9.5 billion — more than they paid in federal income taxes,” the lawmakers noted in letters to each of the companies, pointing to recent research by the Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness.

“Next year, Congress will decide what to do with these corporate giveaways. Republicans have promised to go even further if elected and cut the corporate income tax rate from 21% to 15%,” the lawmakers continued. “This additional tax giveaway would provide Fortune 100 corporations as a whole with another $50 billion each year, more than all current K-12 federal education spending.”

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sheldon........

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