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Catherine Cortez Masto: “I'm not sure many of my Republican colleagues even knew this…”

Featuring: Catherine Cortez Masto, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Nevada

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Cortez Masto Pushes to Repeal Tax Hike on Gambling Losses, Save Nevada Jobs

Published | Video Starts at 02:50

These new rules they made up force them to make changes to existing policy, even if it made that policy worse for Americans. And that's what happened here. Nobody thinks this is a good idea. And I'm not sure many of my Republican colleagues even knew this was in the bill that they passed. So I am proposing a simple solution which is a return to the previous policy. My legislation would allow taxpayers to once again deduct 100% of their losses from their yearly taxes. (02:50–02:56)

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Asserts that many Republican colleagues were unaware of the provision in the tax bill.

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