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Jacky Rosen Introduces Bill To Eliminate Federal Taxes On Tips, Passes Senate Unanimously
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5/20/2025
During remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) introduced a bill to eliminate federal taxes on tips.
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Madam President, the senator from Nevada. Thank you, Madam President. We're not in a quorum call?
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We are not. Thank you. Madam President, hardworking families in Nevada and all across this country are
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struggling to make ends meet because of rising costs on everything from groceries to housing,
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all of which has been made worse by Donald Trump's tariffs that are driving prices even higher.
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Nevadans, our families, we're being squeezed, and they need real relief. They need us to work
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together to lower costs for them. That's why I introduced the No Tax on Tips Act alongside
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Senator Ted Cruz from Texas, which would eliminate federal income taxes on tipped wages. For so many
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service and hospitality workers, tips aren't extra. It's part of their income that they use to make
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ends meet. Tips are how Nevadans pay their rent, cover their groceries, take care of their families,
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their kids. And Nevada has more tipped workers per capita than any other state. So this bill would
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mean immediate financial relief for countless hardworking families. No Tax on Tips was one of
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President Trump's key promises to the American people, which he unveiled in my state of Nevada.
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Florida. And I am not afraid to embrace a good idea wherever it comes from. So I agreed we need to
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get this done. It's not a time for politics. It's a time for progress for hardworking Americans. This
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bipartisan bill is a good idea that has supports from Democrats and Republicans. So we should pass it
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as soon as possible without any poison pills. The problem is that the House Republicans have included
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a version of the No Tax on Tips Act in their bigger budget bill, a bill that cuts Medicaid, SNAP, and other
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programs families rely on to give more tax breaks for billionaires and the ultra-wealthy. So we shouldn't
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be forcing working families to choose between keeping their health care or keeping their tips, which is why we
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want this bipartisan bill to pass on its own, not part of a harmful extreme budget bill. If we're serious
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about providing service employees with financial relief, let's do it now. Let's do it today. Because
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the American people, they get sick and tired of Washington games. So let's pass this bill without
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playing politics, without taking away health care and food assistance from families who need it the
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most. Let's pass it by itself. And so that's why I'm calling on the Senate to pass the bipartisan
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No Tax on Tips Act right here, right now, as a standalone bill. We're going to cut taxes for real
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hardworking Americans, for Nevadans, for everyone, not just for billionaires. We're going to cut taxes on
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service workers' tips without cutting Medicaid or SNAP. And let's get this done with strong guard
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rails so CEOs and the ultra-wealthy don't exploit loopholes meant to help working people. And let's
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pass it to today. Nevadans sent me here to fight for them. And so I'm going to keep working to lower
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costs, to raise wages, and make sure people who power our economy, our working families, can keep more of
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what they earn. And through this bipartisan bill, it shows that I'm not going to allow Washington
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gridlock and bipartisanship to block a bill without a fight. That's why we're going to pass it today.
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Taking matters into my own hands, with the support of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, to pass
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the R-Bipartisan No Tax on Tips Act by unanimous consent. And so, notwithstanding Rule 22, I ask
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unanimous consent that the Committee on Finance be discharged from further consideration of S-129 and
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the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. Clerk will report.
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S-129, a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the application of the income
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tax on qualified tips through a deduction allowed to all individual taxpayers and for other purposes.
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Is there objection to proceeding to the measure? Without objection.
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The Committee is discharged and the Senate will proceed.
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I further ask that the bill be considered read a third time and passed, and that the motion to
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reconsider be made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate.
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Is there objection? Without objection.
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Well, before I yield my time to this Senator from Texas, I just want to say,
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this is great news for Nevada. Our bill just passed. Our hospitality and service staff,
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they're working harder than ever while being squeezed by rising costs. And this bill, it's not the be-all,
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end-all, but it's going to offer immediate financial relief while the Senate continues to work to lower
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costs and find other avenues of relief for hard-working families. Madam President, I yield back. Thank you.
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