Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) met with local restaurant employees and representatives from the Ohio Restaurant & Hospitality Alliance in Brunswick on Mar. 31 to discuss how the Working Families Tax Cuts Act is affecting workers in the industry.
The roundtable was organized so that Husted could hear directly from restaurant staff about their priorities and concerns, particularly regarding changes brought by recent tax legislation.
Husted said, “I value hearing directly from them about their priorities, and that’s why I supported the Working Families Tax Cuts Act—so Ohio workers can keep more of what they earn through no tax on tips and no tax on overtime.” He also stated, “The Ohioans I met with today are the backbone of our state’s economy and integral to what makes Ohio great.”
The Working Families Tax Cuts Act became law in July 2025. The legislation lowers taxes for working Ohioans by preventing tax increases that would have cost an average family of four earning $80,000 an extra $1,700 in federal taxes. The average household in Ohio would have owed an additional $2,140 if Republicans had not passed this budget law. It also protects a 20% small business deduction benefiting approximately 842,000 small businesses across the state and increases the child tax credit to $2,200 per child while making it permanent and indexing it to inflation—a change expected to benefit around 1.3 million families statewide.
According to the official website, Husted serves on Senate committees focusing on health, education, labor and pensions; small business and entrepreneurship; environment and public works; as well as aging according to his official website. Before joining the U.S. Senate he held roles as Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives—where he advanced policies such as educational choice scholarships—and later served as secretary of state and lieutenant governor according to his official website.
Husted has lived in Columbus where he raised three children with his wife Tina before welcoming a granddaughter according to his official biography. He earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Dayton according to his official biography, where he also played football for a national championship team.
