Rep. Hern to Newsmax: US Going After Cartels, Organized Crime With Remittance Tax

A proposed new tax on money that migrants earn in the U.S. and send back home to family is “codifying, going after the cartels and the organized crimes in America that make this all happen,” Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., told Newsmax on Thursday.

The tax, part of the proposed “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” making its way through the Senate, is a 3.5% tax on “remittances” from noncitizens in the U.S., or money transferred back to relatives and family in the migrants’ home country.

“Certainly, as we know from our early days of going after organized crime, it’s about follow the money,” Hern told Newsmax’s “National Report.”