Trump heads to Nevada and Arizona to tout tax cuts before midterms
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President Donald Trump is traveling to two key states this week in this year’s midterm elections to highlight tax cuts that Republicans in Congress passed and signed into law last year.
He will visit Nevada on Thursday and Arizona on Friday. The halts follow a Wednesday deadline for Americans to file their taxes with the IRS.
Trump’s move west comes as the GOP struggles to maintain its slim majority in the House and Senate in midterm elections, with the ruling party often facing political headwinds and losing congressional seats. The GOP also faces a difficult political climate fueled by persistent inflation, rising gas prices that polls show is an unpopular war with Iran, and the president’s low approval ratings.
But Republicans have been highlighting the tax cuts for weeks and insist they will provide a political boost to voters in the midterm elections.
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President Donald Trump signs the sweeping spending and tax bill known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” during a picnic with military families marking Independence Day at the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 4, 2025. (Reuters/Ken Cedeno)
In an interview on Fox Business’ “Mornings with Maria” on Wednesday, Trump praised the tax cuts, telling host Maria Bartiromo that “the refunds are really important and make preparing your tax return less complicated. A lot less complicated.”
“People are getting refunds of $5,000, $8,000, $11,000 that they didn’t know they were getting. It turned out to be better, better than I said, even better,” the president said. he emphasized.
The tax cuts were a key component of Republicans’ massive domestic policy measures, nearly all of which passed along party lines in the GOP-controlled House and Senate.
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The legislation, originally called the One Big Good Bill Act but renamed the Working Families Tax Cuts, is packed with Trump’s second-term priorities, including his 2024 campaign promises and tax cut extensions. signature of the president 2017 tax cuts and eliminating taxes on tips and overtime wages.
President Donald Trump smiles as he arrives at the podium during his “No Tax on Tips” initiative visit to Il Toro E La Capra in Las Vegas on Aug. 23, 2024, during the presidential campaign. (Daniel Jacobi II/Las Vegas Review Magazine/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Trump will draw attention to tax cuts at a roundtable meeting to be held at the AC Hotel in Las Vegas on Thursday. A popular entertainment and gaming destination, the city has a large population of service industry workers who rely on tips and overtime pay.
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president will make remarks at the Turning Point USA event at Dream City Church in Phoenix on Friday.
“You will hear a lot from the president about how his policies benefit the American people,” Leavitt said.
Democrats have criticized the tax cuts, arguing that they disproportionately benefit the wealthy and corporations.
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“Donald Trump promised Americans lower prices, lower taxes, and bigger refunds, and what did they get instead? Huge tax cuts for Trump and his wealthy friends, a reckless trade war that drove up prices, and a deadly and costly taxpayer-funded war with Iran,” Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin said in a statement.
Martin claimed that “Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ “steals from nursing homes, rural hospitals, and hungry families to provide a windfall for the ultra-rich.” And he claimed: “Americans are seeing lower-than-promised refunds hit their bank accounts, and that doesn’t even cover the higher costs Trump is forcing them to shoulder.”
