The U.S. Senate unexpectedly passed a version of “no tax on tips” — a policy that President Donald Trump touted on the campaign trail in Las Vegas — via unanimous consent on Tuesday after Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) brought the bill to the floor.
Rosen took to the Senate floor to ask the upper chamber to pass the bill — originally authored by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) — on its own using a procedural tool called unanimous consent that requires all 100 senators to agree. Typically used for noncontroversial resolutions and simple requests, unanimous consent is rarely agreed to for more substantive policy.
But remarkably, no Democrats or Republicans objected to the bill — facilitating its swift passage.
