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Vice President Kamala Harris is rolling out a new policy position, saying she’ll fight to end taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers. 

It’s a proposal her opponent, former President Donald Trump, has touted all summer in an effort to win over tipped workers. Campaigning in Las Vegas on Saturday with running mate Gov. Tim Walz, Harris pledged to work to eliminate federal taxes on tips earned by restaurant employees and other service industry workers. 

“We will continue our fight for working families of America, including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers,” Harris said in Nevada. 

It may be one of the few policies on which Harris and Trump agree, as they spend the next three months persuading voters to support their vision for America’s future. The president doesn’t have the authority to unilaterally exempt tips from federal taxes — that’s something Congress would need to pass in order for the president to sign.

The Culinary Union, which represents 60,0000 hospitality workers in Nevada, praised Harris for the policy announcement. 

“Vice-President Kamala Harris acknowledged the hard working men and women of the hospitality industry and committed tonight in Las Vegas to raise the minimum wage across the country and fight to end taxes on tips once elected as the next President of the United States of America,” the union said in a statement

Trump first announced his support of eliminating taxes on tips in June, and has reiterated the stance frequently at rallies. The former president, in response to Harris’ platform announcement over the weekend, called her a “COPYCAT.” But Trump isn’t the first politician to propose eliminating federal taxes on tips.

As early as 2007, former Rep. Ron Paul introduced legislation in the House to exempt tips from both federal income and payroll taxes, to no avail. And former Republican Rep. Phil Crane of Illinois also called to eliminate federal taxes on tips in the 1980s, according to contemporary news reports kept by the Government Publishing Office and highlighted by the Huffington Post. 

Three weeks after President Biden dropped out of the race for president, Harris has offered little in the way of new policy proposals or platforms to distinguish her campaign from Mr. Biden’s. But with the Democratic National Convention slated to begin in one week, more proposals could be forthcoming. 



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Family of Israeli hostage still held in Gaza speaks out one year after Oct. 7 attack

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One year ago, Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, including on the Nova Music Festival where more than 360 people were killed and 40 taken hostage. Omer Shem Tov had initially escaped but went back after losing track of two friends. He was communicating with his family until they watched his phone’s location show him moving into Gaza. His cousin speaks to “CBS Mornings” about the war in Gaza and securing his return.

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The Weather Channel’s Stephanie Abrams gives a look at Hurricane Milton’s latest path as it heads toward Florida with an anticipated landfall Wednesday.

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Hurricane Milton is rapidly growing in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to make landfall Wednesday as a Category 3 storm in a part of western Florida still reeling from Hurricane Helene.

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