Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) recently signed on as a co-sponsor to a Republican bill to remove taxes on tips, flip-flopping on her previous position on the bill.
As of Thursday, Rosen was one of two Democrat senators in Nevada who had joined S.4621 as a co-sponsor. The other senator was reported as being Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV).
Rosen’s co-sponsoring of the bill comes as former President Donald Trump has stated that if elected, he will eliminate taxes on tips. Sam Brown, Rosen’s Republican opponent in Nevada’s Senate, has also supported eliminating taxes on tips.
Brown revealed in a statement to NBC News, that Trump’s idea was “actually a policy idea” that he and his team had been developing and “were planning to roll out in the general election.”
“So in some sense, President Trump scooped us and beat us to it,” Brown added. “But that’s something we’re fully behind. Those tips are not guaranteed income, people work hard for it.”