Mia Love, the Utah mayor who hopes to become the first black woman Republican elected to Congress, says Democrats are willing to throw all of the American people “under the bus” just to get higher-income earners to pay more taxes.

“What they’re doing is they are taking the poor, they are taking everyone who is working, and they’re throwing them under the bus by not allowing them to have a job,” Love told Fox News’ Sean Hannity Monday night.

The mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, was referring to Democratic threats to allow the so-called Bush tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 to expire unless Republicans agree to raise taxes on the nation’s wealthiest.

She called that scenario a job killer, saying it force businesses across the country to cut workforces.

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