Senate Dems Join GOP To Approve Major Trump Campaign Promise In Surprise Move

The Senate passed bipartisan legislation to eliminate tax on tips through unanimous consent in a surprise move Tuesday afternoon.

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s No Taxes On Tips Act would exempt tips from taxation under the federal income tax. The legislation’s passage delivers on a central pledge of President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign to provide tax relief to tipped workers.

Democratic Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen, a cosponsor of the legislation, went to the Senate floor Tuesday to ask for unanimous consent to pass the bill. No senators from either party objected to Rosen’s request.

“No tax and tips was one of President Trump’s key promises to the American people, which he unveiled in my State of Nevada,” Rosen said Tuesday. “And I am not afraid to embrace a good idea wherever it comes from.”

Cruz spoke shortly after Rosen to praise the legislation’s passage, which he called “commonsense, bipartisan tax reform.”

“With what we just saw now, the certainty that we will see no tax on tips become the law of the land, I think, is very close to 100%,” Cruz said on the Senate floor. “As the senator from Nevada mentioned, it is included in the House’s one big, beautiful bill, and whether it passes free standing or as part of the bigger bill —one way or another — no tax on tips is going to become law and give real relief to hard working Americans.”

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