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Sonderling Visits Iowa with Rep. Nunn to Promote No Tax on Tips

September 14, 2026 · USDepartmentofLabor · 0:01:06

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What happened

Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling and Rep. Zach Nunn visited the Whiskey River restaurant in Ankeny, Iowa, where they spoke with hospitality workers — hotel and restaurant employees — about the impact of the no-tax-on-tips legislation included in the administration’s big bill, according to the local news report carried by the Labor Department.

Sonderling told WHO 13 reporter Teodora Mitov that the President’s policies are helping Iowans: there is more money in Iowans’ pockets, he said, they are spending at restaurants like this one and tipping, and the hosts and servers keep more of their pay — which, he said, is the point of coming to Iowa and seeing it firsthand.

Nunn said the policy returns some of Iowans’ investment to them by putting their tax dollars back in their pockets, and that people use it to help grow their businesses, invest in a local restaurant, or buy from a local manufacturer. The two also toured a local factory earlier in the day.

Why it matters

The visit is part of the administration’s on-the-ground sales effort for its signature tax provisions, using tipped hospitality workers in Iowa as the public face of the no-tax-on-tips policy.

Sources: USDepartmentofLabor, “Secretary Sonderling visits Iowa with Congressman Nunn”, 2026-09-14 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-09-14). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.