Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday criticized several blue states for their “ongoing refusal” to adopt some “key provisions” of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB).
Trump signed the OBBB, which partly eliminated taxes on tips and overtime pay and strengthened the tax cuts from his first term, into law on July 4. Bessent stated that Democrat-controlled states such as Colorado, New York, Illinois, Maine, and the District of Columbia are “deliberately blocking their own residents” from benefiting from the “historic advantages” of the OBBB’s tax cuts.
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