U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., is accusing the Trump administration of stonewalling her requests for data on the U.S. tourism industry’s decline, leaving Nevada’s economy in limbo amid falling visitor numbers.
In a Nov. 24 letter to the White House, the senator warned that the administration’s policies — specifically funding cuts to the tourism-marketing group Brand USA and ongoing tariff uncertainty — threaten jobs in one of the nation’s most tourism-reliant states.
Cortez Masto’s push underscores broader concerns as Las Vegas faces what many are calling a “Trump slump” in visitation.
Tourism supports roughly one in four Nevada jobs, according to the U.S. Travel Association, and Brand USA has been credited with bringing in billions in visitor spending nationwide since its creation in 2010.
