Speaker Johnson releases video with Uber driver, highlighting No Tax on Tips provision in the Working Families Tax Cuts
WASHINGTON — This morning, Speaker Johnson joined Fox and Friends in studio to preview a new ‘No Tax on Tips’ video and discuss how Republicans’ Working Families Tax Cuts delivers historic tax relief for millions of tipped workers and hardworking American families nationwide. Speaker Johnson also discussed Democrats’ continued demands to defund border security and immigration enforcement amid their record-long DHS shutdown.
“The Big Beautiful Bill, the Working Families Tax Cuts, was written for lower- and middle-class earners — for the people who get up and start working before the sun rises and goes home after it sets to feed their families,” Speaker Johnson said. “This is real money for real people. Overall, you’re talking about $191 billion in additional refunds because of our legislation and about $30 billion less in withholding. Real money for real people. Every Republican in Congress voted for that, and every Democrat voted against it.”
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On the impact of Working Families Tax Cuts for hardworking Americans:
The Big Beautiful Bill, the Working Families Tax Cuts, was written for lower- and middle-class earners — for the people who get up and start working before the sun rises and goes home after it sets to feed their families. Bob is a great example. He’s an Uber driver. He’s going to save so much money this year. And everybody who works in a tipped job, they pay zero taxes now. Lawrence, in the first $25,000 of their tipped income for the average American that does those jobs, that’s about $1,300 more in their pocket. You talk about millions of Americans. I mean, here in New York, a half a million people worked in tip jobs. The Pew Research Center says about 43% of Americans have done that at some stage in their life. So, this is real money for real people. Overall, you’re talking about $191 billion in additional refunds because of our legislation and about $30 billion less in withholding. Real money for real people. Every Republican in Congress voted for that, and every Democrat voted against it.
On Democrats refusing to fully fund DHS:
We passed the bill, the full funding bill, a CR for eight weeks. Clean, nonpartisan, no tricks on that at all, just to keep the whole Department of Homeland Security funded for eight weeks so the parties can work out the differences. We thought that would be passed by unanimous consent on Monday, and it didn’t happen in the Senate. And so, we’ve got a dilemma. The outrage and the reason we were so upset, Lawrence, is because they sent us a bill that literally put the number zero in the bill for the funding of border security and customs and immigration enforcement. We can’t do that. That was the biggest issue in the 2024 election.
And it’s outrageous to us just in those two agencies, CBP and ICE, you’re talking about 98,000 hardworking Americans, self-sacrificing, people who have to pay their mortgages and, and put food on the table. They wanted to zero them out. We cannot be a part of that. So, we’re calling on everybody. Look, the House Members are in their districts working right now. We can bring them back on a moment’s notice for a vote. The Senate has to do their job and help us on this heavy lift. We have to get the government funded, and they’re playing games with real people’s lives.
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