Expand the deduction that new businesses can take for startup expenditures.

Margaret Wood Hassan · New Hampshire · Democratic

policy impact 0.42 specificity 0.78 extraction confidence 94%

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Evidence

The Hassan office says Senators Hassan, Young, Collins, and Kaine reintroduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen workforce training and business partnerships.

Recent business-policy activity, but it does not show an expansion of the startup-expense deduction. The promise remains unresolved in the lookback window.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Press Releases | U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 41%

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During National Small Business Week, Hassan discussed tariff-related challenges with a Manchester small business owner after a new report on harm to small businesses.

This is small-business engagement, but it is not evidence that Hassan advanced the specific startup-expense deduction promise. The status still looks unresolved.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Press Releases | U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 39%

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Assessments

unresolved unknown

The provided evidence shows general small-business and workforce-policy activity by Senator Hassan, but it does not show that she secured, sponsored, or materially advanced an actual expansion of the federal startup-expenditure deduction. There is also no evidence here that the promised tax change was enacted, either during her term or later based on her work. Because the record in this payload does not establish delivery, partial delivery, or a concrete failed push on the specific deduction, the claim is best scored as unresolved.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4 · confidence 79%