Johnson Says Congress Will ‘Do the Math’ on Key Trump Tax Pledge
- House speaker says tax cuts for Americans must be ‘paid for’
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House Speaker Mike Johnson said Donald Trump’s plan to end income tax on tips would have to be paid for, injecting a note of caution into one of the president-elect’s key campaign pledges.
“This is one of the promises that he wants to deliver on,” Johnson said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. “We’re going to try to make that happen in the Congress. You’ve got to do the math.”