Donald Trump Teams Up With Adam Schiff to Save Hollywood

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President Donald Trump says he is working with Democratic Senator Adam Schiff of California—a longtime political adversary who led Trump’s first impeachment trial—on a bipar ...

President Donald Trump says he is working with Democratic Senator Adam Schiff of California—a longtime political adversary who led Trump’s first impeachment trial—on a bipartisan push to establish new federal tax credits for film and television productions made primarily in the United States.

The proposed Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act aims to counter foreign tax incentives that have drawn entertainment jobs away from Hollywood and other U.S. production hubs.

Newsweek contacted Schiff for comment on Saturday by email outside of regular office hours.

In a post Friday on his Truth Social platform, Trump announced he is working with a coalition of lawmakers to advance the legislation, which was introduced in Congress in September.

“I am working with Senator Tim Scott and, believe it or not, Senator Adam Schiff, and, additionally, Senators John Cornyn, Raphael Warnock, Steve Daines, Bernie Moreno, Tim Sheehy, Alex Padilla, Mark Warner, Thom Tillis, Chris Coons, Katie Britt, and Dick Durbin, together with Representatives Jason Smith, Nathaniel Moran, Brian Jack, Linda Sanchez, and many others, both Republican and Democrat, on the Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act,” the president wrote.

Trump said Hollywood had been “emptied out” by “Tax Incentives, and much more, given by other Countries” signaling out Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia as having taken jobs in the entertainment industry.

He added the bill is a “very Bipartisan undertaking, especially in that so much of the money being lost to other countries is coming out of the Blue States” and said he hopes “Republicans and Democrats will get together” to pass the legislation.

Trump wrote the film and television industries were “MADE IN AMERICA, and must STAY IN AMERICA” adding support for the new legislation had been “unbelievable.”

The Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act was introduced in the Senate on September 24 by…

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