In Nevada this week, staff at the powerful Culinary Workers Union Local 226 pored through the latest draft text of the reconciliation bill to see a decades-long dream realized: a provision to eliminate federal taxes on income generated from tips.

“It’s surprising,” Ted Pappageorge, the local’s secretary-treasurer, told NOTUS. “There’s an opportunity here, if we can get this done right, to get some relief for tip earners.”

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But in truth, there is a lot to argue about on this topic and what it really means to champion the working class. Pappageorge said if what’s in the draft bill is what he can get, he’ll take it. But it’s not what he actually wants. There’s a chance, he said, for someone to stand up and fight over this relatively small thing and score huge points with an electorate everyone claims to care about.