The Motion Picture Association congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory on Wednesday.
“We look forward to working with them on a wide range of important issues for the film, TV and streaming industry, which supports more than 2.7 million American jobs, boosts more than 240,000 businesses in cities and small towns across the country and delivers over $242 billion in wages to our workforce each year,” the assertion learn.
The MPA ended the message by commending “everyone who worked this year to ensure fair elections and preserve our nation’s legitimate democratic processes,” a comment that comes after Trump spent a number of years sowing doubt in those self same processes with claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
As the highest lobbying group for the leisure business, the MPA has closely pushed for enlargement of state manufacturing tax credit to encourage job development for movie and TV employees. Final week, California Senator-elect Adam Schiff known as on the Bureau of Labor Statistics to supply knowledge on how tax incentives in different nations such because the U.Ok. and Canada have an effect on the quantity of productions shot within the U.S.
Schiff additionally known as for a federal tax incentive for productions to assist make the U.S. a greater world competitor within the leisure business, however whether or not that might be supported by an incoming Trump Administration and a Republican-controlled Senate is unclear.
