Abdul El-Sayed, the left-wing Michigan Senate candidate who has built his campaign around attacking Trump-era tax cuts as giveaways to the wealthy, claimed a $26,171 deduction on his own tax return that exists only because of the law he denounces. El-Sayed and his wife, psychiatrist Sarah Jukaku, took the qualified business income deduction on their […] The post Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed pocketed $26,000 from the Trump tax cut he called 'deplorable' appeared first on American Almanac .
Abdul El-Sayed, the left-wing Michigan Senate candidate who has built his campaign around attacking Trump-era tax cuts as giveaways to the wealthy, claimed a $26,171 deduction on his own tax return that exists only because of the law he denounces. El-Sayed and his wife, psychiatrist Sarah Jukaku, took the qualified business income deduction on their 2025 federal return, saving roughly $6,000 in taxes, while El-Sayed spent the year barnstorming Michigan alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders, calling the same tax provisions "deplorable and disgusting." The first two pages of the return, which El-Sayed released on July 15, show total household income of $686,069. That figure places the self-styled champion of working families above the $611,500…Open
Abdul El-Sayed, the left-wing Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Michigan on a working-class platform, released two pages of his 2025 federal tax return showing $686,069 in total income, a figure that places him squarely in the top one percent of earners in the state he wants to represent. He left out the pages that […] The post Abdul El-Sayed's partial tax release reveals top-one-percent income — while he campaigns as a working-class champion appeared first on American Almanac .
Abdul El-Sayed, the left-wing Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Michigan on a working-class platform, released two pages of his 2025 federal tax return showing $686,069 in total income, a figure that places him squarely in the top one percent of earners in the state he wants to represent. He left out the pages that would explain where the money came from. The partial disclosure, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon , omitted both Schedule 1, which details additional income sources, and Schedule D, which breaks down capital gains. Those are the forms that would tell Michigan voters exactly how a self-described public servant nearly tripled his income since his 2018 gubernatorial run, and where his money is actually parked. …Open
In their 2025 joint tax return, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, reported a combined income of roughly $145,000, including about $10,000 that she earned from art work.
“Paid preparer errors contribute to billions of dollars in improper claims of refundable tax credits and can have negative consequences for taxpayers,” the GAO report says.