Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) recently joined the Republicans in co-sponsoring a bill to repeal the tip tax, reversing her previous position on the bill.
As of Thursday, Rosen was one of two Democratic senators from Nevada. Participated Co-sponsor of S. 4621. The other Senator reported to be Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada).
Rosen co-sponsored the bill after former President Donald Trump vowed to repeal the tip tax if elected. Rosen’s Republican opponent in the Nevada Senate, Sam Brown, also supports repealing the tip tax.
Brown said in a statement. NBC NewsHe said Trump’s ideas were “actually policy ideas that he and his team had developed and planned to deploy in the general election.”
“In some ways, President Trump got there before us,” Brown added, “but we fully support it. These tips are not a guaranteed income. People work hard for them.”
The bill aims to “amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the application of income tax to cash tips through a deduction available to all individual taxpayers.” sponsor Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
Joanna Warshaw, a spokeswoman for Rosen’s campaign, said the pledge to repeal the tip tax was “disturbing,” according to the outlet.
“Nevada workers know they can’t trust the empty claims of self-serving politicians like Sam Brown who try to hide their real plans to give more tax cuts to billionaires and corporate special interests,” Warshaw said. “Jacky Rosen supports lowering taxes for tipped workers and all hardworking Nevadans, which is why she has fought for years to get tax cuts, pass a broad-based middle-class tax cut, while also cutting costs and raising the minimum wage.”
Following Rosen’s signing on as a co-sponsor of the Republican-backed bill, Maggie Abboud, a spokeswoman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), said: statement He called Rosen a “stubborn, duplicitous politician” who was “desperately trying to protect his political career.”
“Jacky Rosen is a weak-willed, duplicitous politician desperately trying to protect her political career,” Abboud said. “No one believes that Rosen, whose main job in Washington is to give Joe Biden’s disastrous policies his stamp of approval, will help President Trump pass this bill.”
Brown released a statement saying he was “pleased” that Rosen was “finally supporting a solution for working families,” adding that the idea had been “supported” by Brown and Trump.
“I’m pleased that Jacky Rosen has finally supported a solution for working families, an idea that President Trump and I have advocated for,” Brown added. “Having worked in an Amazon warehouse to provide for my family, I understand the struggles of working 10- or 12-hour days just to make a living. Nevada workers deserve to keep more of their hard-earned money, and our plan to repeal the tip tax would do just that.”
Ted Papageorge, secretary-treasurer of the Culinary Workers Union, previously called Trump’s pledge to eliminate the tip tax an “empty promise,” according to NBC News.
But Papageorge praised Rosen and Cortez Masto for joining as co-sponsors of the bill, saying he was “proud to have senators fighting to get real results for working families.” according to Nevada Independent.
