Rep. Gill Bill Passes House, Ensuring Tax Relief for DC Residents

February 4, 2026
Press Release

Washington, D.C. — The House of Representatives today voted 215 to 210 to pass H.J.Res.142, Congressman Brandon Gill’s (R-TX) resolution in disapproval of the District of Columbia Council’s approval of a tax bill that would block President Trump’s tax relief for DC residents. Rep. Gill’s resolution would block the D.C. Income and Franchise Tax Conformity and Revision Temporary Amendment Act of 2025 which passed the D.C. Council late in 2025 and effectively decouples DC tax law frxom certain tax provisions in the Working Families Tax Cut Act.

“Thanks to President Trump, the Working Families Tax Cut stopped the largest tax hike since World War II, providing Americans with historic tax relief,” said Rep. Gill. “The DC Council’s actions would block DC residents, namely service workers, from receiving these federal tax credits, from non-taxable tips and overtime, and from keeping their hard-earned money in their wallets. I am joining my colleague Sen. Rick Scott of Florida in putting a stop to the DC Council’s interference with America First tax relief.”

Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced companion legislation in the Senate.

Senator Scott said, “President Trump and Republicans passed historic tax cuts into law last year, including No Tax on Tips and No Tax on Overtime to support hardworking American families and businesses and to let them keep more of their own money. I cut taxes over 100 times when I was Governor of Florida to help turn our economy around and businesses grow – which is exactly what President Trump is working to do on the federal level. It is absolutely absurd that self-interested DC bureaucrats would deliberately deny families and businesses from saving their own, hard-earned dollars. Government’s top priority should be serving families, not benefitting off them.”

Cosponsors (1): Steube 

Supporting Groups (12): AMAC Action, America First Policy Institute, DC Police Union, Heritage Action, Independent Women’s Forum, International Franchise Association, National Association of Convenience Stores, National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, National Restaurant Association, National Taxpayers Union - KEY VOTE YES, Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Background

  • The D.C. Income and Franchise Tax Conformity and Revision Temporary Amendment Act of 2025 was passed by the DC Council and took effect on December 3, 2025. This temporary legislation is set to expire 225 days after it takes effect (March 3, 2026), unless further action is taken. The legislation was submitted to Congress for review under the Home Rule Act on December 30, 2024.
  • The DC Council seeks to extend its temporarily-suspended conformity with nine prominent tax-related provisions in the Working Families Tax Cut (WFTC) Act. Specifically, DC Council wants DC to decouple from these following major WFTC tax provisions: an increased standard deduction, no tax on social security, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on auto loan interest, a full expensing of a business’s domestic research and experimental expenditures, a new 100% expensing of qualified manufacturing and production property and improvements, increased charitable deduction, and qualified small business stock gain exclusion for individual filers

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