National Police Union signals strong support for President Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

The largest constabulary national successful the state has issued an endorsement of cardinal provisions of the President Donald Trump-backed "big, beautiful" fund bill.

National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) President Patrick Yoes announced beardown enactment for the measure connected Wednesday evening, saying "the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ is much than legislation—it is simply a committedness kept to the nationalist information officers crossed the state and a bold measurement toward an system that respects, rewards, and uplifts the radical who support it safe."

Yoes expressed beardown enactment for 2 provisions successful the bill, a taxation deduction for overtime wage and an summation successful the authorities and section taxation (SALT) deductions, which the FOP said are important to the rank-and-file members of the 377,000-member organization. 

The FOP president praised the enactment of Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson for passing the measure successful Congress.

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US President Donald Trump and National President of the Fraternal Order of Police Patrick Yoes talk during a "Make America Great Again" run rally astatine Harrisburg planetary airdrome successful Middletown, Pensylvania connected September 26, 2020. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)  (Getty images)

The measure passed the House aft an all-night statement past week successful which Republicans squeezed retired a triumph successful a 215-214 vote. The measure present faces important absorption from Democrats and immoderate Republicans successful the Senate.  

"President Trump archetypal projected the elimination of Federal income taxes connected overtime portion inactive a candidate, and we are precise pleased that a akin proviso is included successful the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill Act,’" Yoes said. 

Regarding the bill’s summation successful SALT deductions, the FOP praised portions of the big, beauteous measure that would make a taxation deduction for income taxes connected overtime net for those who gain little than $160,000 per twelvemonth arsenic good arsenic summation the SALT deduction to $40,000 for each taxpayers earning little than $500,000 per year.

SALT deduction caps chiefly payment radical surviving successful high-cost-of-living areas similar New York City, Los Angeles, and their surrounding areas. Republicans representing those areas person framed raising the SALT deduction headdress arsenic an existential issue, arguing that a nonaccomplishment to code it could outgo the GOP the House bulk successful the 2026 midterms. 

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Meanwhile, Republicans representing lower-tax states are mostly wary of raising the deduction cap, believing that it incentivizes bluish states’ high-tax policies. 

Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., told Fox News that helium is hopeful the Senate would code the SALT deductions, positing that the proviso would adhd $385 cardinal to U.S. shortage spending.

Yoes, however, said "the existent headdress connected SALT deductions uniquely and unfairly penalizes instrumentality enforcement officers, who often are required to unrecorded wrong a definite region of the jurisdictions they serve—removing a invaluable mechanics that allowed for a simplification successful their outgo of living."

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Patrick Yoes, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, speaks to a assemblage successful Washington, D.C., connected August 8, 2022 (Fox News Digital/Stephanie Pagones)

He said the SALT deduction is besides "a invaluable mode of supporting section budgets arsenic instrumentality enforcement agencies are facing an array of fiscal challenges associated with inflated costs of equipment, vehicles, and personnel, particularly with respect to the ongoing recruitment and retention crisis."

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"These are captious provisions to guarantee those successful the instrumentality enforcement assemblage person a amended prime of life," said Yoes. "We admit that President Trump is ever warring for our nation’s instrumentality enforcement officers."