Adam Schiff Teamed Up With Spencer Pratt on Hollywood Federal Tax Credit Push

Of all the bizarre bipartisan alliances that have characterized the push for a federal film and television tax credit, perhaps the strangest may be the relationship between Spencer Pratt and Sen. Adam Schiff.

Schiff spoke to recent interactions with the conservative reality TV star-turned former L.A. mayoral candidate in a press call on Thursday. He and a group of bipartisan lawmakers had just introduced the film and television tax incentive legislation, which aims to incentivize more productions to film in the U.S., and were speaking to how it has united figures across the aisle.

“It’s brought together some unusual allies. I’ve been strategizing with Spencer Pratt and Jon Voight and others, I really appreciate their efforts and their support,” Schiff revealed.

And in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that followed the call, the California Democrat expanded on that relationship, noting that it dates back to August, when disaster tax relief legislation he introduced with Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) passed Congress.

“I think it really started after Rick Scott and I got legislation passed to help the victims of the fires in Los Angeles and other natural disasters,” Schiff said. “And [Pratt] expressed his appreciation for what I’d done on that and reached out to me on the film tax credit. And that I think was really where things got started.”

Pratt, whose home was destroyed in the 2025 Pacific Palisades fire, also posted a thank-you message to Schiff and Scott around the same time on the social platform X. “It’s easy to complain, but good leadership is very rare,” he wrote.

Another detail of Pratt’s work that emerged in conversation with Schiff: Pratt registered the interest of Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) in the potential bill and passed the message along. Scott ended up co-sponsoring the federal tax credit legislation in the Senate with Schiff.

When asked how he came to partner with Scott on the legislation, Schiff noted, “Senator Scott was one of the Republican offices that we have been in touch with on this. My understanding is that Tim had worked on a proposal for a state incentive in South Carolina as a state legislator. So this was something he was very familiar with and supportive of.”

The senator added, “But it became very clear, not only through our conversations, but also some of the outside stakeholders like Spencer Pratt and Jon Voight who had been in touch with Tim Scott’s office, that there’s really strong interest there.”

Pratt isn’t the only conservative that the senator, who has made his enmity with President Trump no secret, has worked closely with on the tax credit. Schiff noted that he has also been in “continual” conversations with Jon Voight, one of President Trump‘s “special ambassadors” to Hollywood, who has done significant lobbying work for the legislation.

“The nice thing about all this is that it was very harmonious from the start. And I had a great conversation with Jon a couple weeks ago about how to get this finalized. And I think he’s been a tremendous help making the case to the president,” Schiff said. “So it’s been certainly an unusual partnership on the one hand, but it’s been very refreshing at the same time.”

Pratt went public with his lobbying efforts on behalf of the federal tax credit in early August, when he posted images of himself with President Trump and explained he had been pushing for the measure. “I’m committed to saving Hollywood, and I’m very grateful for the President’s remarkable generosity and focus on this issue,” he wrote. According to sources, Pratt has remained active in pushing for a tax credit ever since.

Schiff, meanwhile, told THR on Thursday that he has been working on a potential tax credit for 20 to 25 years, ever since he was a member of the House of Representatives.

“We had language ready when the moment was right again this year and worked with our Republican partners in the House and Senate to make changes to it so that we would all be in agreement on it,” Schiff said. “I’m thrilled that we are at this important milestone where we have identical legislation introduced to both houses and the support of the President.”