The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business.
Senate Republicans Want Legislative Priorities Passed in June. All eyes are on the U.S. Congress this week as Republicans in the U.S. Senate roll up their sleeves and get down to working on their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. President Donald Trump has stated that he wants to sign the bill by July 4, which gives Senate Republicans roughly four weeks to pass the bill—an ambitious timetable. As a reminder, because Republicans are using the reconciliation legislative process, they can pass this bill on their own in the Senate, without the need to convince Democrats to vote in favor of the bill.
Buzz readers know that we are watching closely the status of the “no tax on tips and overtime” provisions in the House-passed reconciliation bill, particularly since the Senate passed the No Tax on Tips Act (S.129). Already at least one Republican senator has expressed concern over the U.S. House of Representatives version’s language on tips, because it would benefit certain workers over others, even when they earn the same amount of money. The Buzz is also watching to see if the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, which was included in the House bill, will survive the reconciliation process in the Senate. The REINS Act is, in a way, the opposite of the...
Campbell’s, a renowned canned soup brand, recently terminated a high-ranking executive following the emergence of a recording in which he made racially insensitive statements and alleged that the ...