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President Trump connected Saturday touted his run committedness for tax-free tips and thanked Nevada voters for delivering his triumph arsenic helium stopped for a triumph lap successful the battleground authorities that flipped reddish for the archetypal clip successful decades successful November.
"In the coming weeks, I'll beryllium moving with Congress to get a measure connected my table that cuts taxes for workers, families, tiny businesses, and, precise importantly, keeps my committedness for a happening called .... No taxation connected tips,” Trump said to applause astatine the Circa Resort and Casino, his first visit to Nevada since taking bureau connected Monday.
“So if you're a edifice worker, a server, a valet, a bellhop, a bartender, oregon 1 of my caddies — I spell done caddies similar candy, if I play badly, I ever blasted my caddy — oregon immoderate different idiosyncratic who relies connected tipped income, your tips volition beryllium 100% yours," helium continued.
Trump debuted his connection to exempt tips from national taxes astatine a rally successful Nevada past summer, and helium has pointed to its popularity among the state’s work and hospitality workers arsenic a large origin successful his triumph there. Recent polling has shown the thought has traction nationwide, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) past week reintroduced a bill to that end.
As helium talked up the proposal, Trump quipped to the Las Vegas assemblage that “I cognize you didn't perceive thing astir this, and I'm definite it had nary power connected the state, the information that we won this crazy, monolithic majority, the authorities that hadn't been won by a Republican successful decades.”
When Nevada flipped reddish successful November, Trump became the archetypal GOP statesmanlike campaigner to triumph the cardinal plaything authorities since President George W. Bush successful 2004.
“I privation to travel to Nevada to wage my respects due to the fact that this is the lone Republican triumph of the authorities successful decades, and it was a precise large landslide,” Trump said, adding that “I deliberation Republicans are going to triumph a batch now.”
Trump’s halt successful Las Vegas came aft back-to-back visits successful hurricane-hit North Carolina and wildfire-torn Los Angeles, capping disconnected a engaged archetypal week backmost successful the Oval Office. From the Nevada stage, Trump laid retired immoderate of his accomplishments, including enforcement enactment to recognize lone 2 sexes and end diversity, equity and inclusion practices successful the national government.
He touted his hiring freeze affecting the Internal Revenue Service, saying "they hired, oregon tried to hire, 88,000 caller workers to spell aft you, and we're successful the process of processing a program to either terminate each of them, oregon possibly we'll determination them to the border."
"How astir conscionable nary tax, period?" Trump said to the crowd, aft an assemblage subordinate appeared to outcry the suggestion. "You know, if the tariffs enactment retired ... a happening similar that could happen."
The president besides hinted astatine imaginable territorial enlargement arsenic helium hailed plans to "drill, baby, drill," — comments that travel arsenic helium floats U.S. power of Greenland and the Panama Canal.
"The United States has the largest magnitude of lipid and state of immoderate state connected Earth, and we whitethorn beryllium a precise substantially enlarged state successful the not excessively distant — isn't it bully to see? You know, for years, for decades, we’re the aforesaid size to the quadrate foot, astir apt got smaller, actually, but we mightiness beryllium an enlarged state beauteous soon, and 1 of the things we're going to beryllium doing is: drill, baby, drill," Trump said.
