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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act delivers for America. Now the Senate Must Deliver Too.
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(Concho Valley Homepage) — The House of Representatives has delivered on the American people's mandate by passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the most comprehensive and consequential set of conservative reforms in our nation's history. This transformative package includes record levels of tax cuts, spending reduction, and border and national security investment. The ball is now in the Senate's court and their mission is simple: move the One Big Beautiful Bill to the president's desk as soon as possible.
This legislation delivers a historic tax cut and $5,000 raise for the average American family to provide immediate relief to working households struggling after four years of economic mismanagement under the Biden administration. It permanently expands the 2017 Trump tax break for small businesses, the backbone of our economy, and enhances incentives for American companies to invest, grow and raise worker wages for decades to come. The bill's impact extends beyond the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act by providing additional relief to lower- and middle-income Americans by eliminating taxes on tips, exempting overtime pay and doubling the tax credit for seniors on a fixed income. Additionally, we support working families by increasing the child tax credit to $2,500 per family, making interest on car loans tax deductible and expanding health savings accounts. We're strengthening America's security by investing $46 billion to complete President Trump's border wall and hiring 18,000 new immigration enforcement personnel to detain and deport at least 1 million illegal immigrants annually. We're committing almost $150 billion to rebuild America's military, including $34 billion to revitalize our naval fleet and $25 billion for missile defense.
Furthermore, we're unleashing American energy dominance by opening federal lands for drilling, reducing the regulatory stranglehold on conventional fuels, and eliminating hundreds of billions in green new deal subsidies that have made U.S. energy more expensive and less reliable. And we're accomplishing all of this while reducing spending by $1.6 trillion, the largest spending reform package in American history by two-fold. This isn't just fiscal responsibility; it's the beginning of a generational reset that will restore America's financial health. At every stage of this process, Democrats have resorted to fear-mongering and false claims to undermine this critical legislation. So desperate to derail the bill, they manipulated Congressional Budget Office analyses to mislead the American people about the outcomes of the One Big Beautiful Bill. They use the fact that we prohibit illegal immigrants and able-bodied adults who refuse to work from receiving taxpayer-funded welfare services to fallaciously suggest that vulnerable people are being 'ripped away' from the social safety net. Furthermore, they deliberately cherry-pick CBO data to spread the false narrative that our tax cuts only benefit the wealthy.
Never mind the fact that CBO's own data confirm that American households in every tax bracket would see increased after-tax income under our legislation. The left knows they can't convince the American people on the substance of this bill, so they have resorted to fabrications. The Senate now holds America's economic future in its hands. The House spent months developing a balanced budget reconciliation bill that advances every pillar of the America First vision, including restoring our nation's fiscal health by reining in the runaway spending and reducing our debt-to-GDP ratio. While the Senate may be able to make modest improvements, they must resist the temptation to significantly alter this carefully crafted legislation. Any major changes risk upsetting the delicate balance struck in the House and derailing President Trump's America First agenda. In fact, every day the Senate delays this process is another day closer to tax hikes for working families, uncertainty for small businesses, and a military and border patrol lacking the resources they need to be successful.
The American people gave President Trump and unified Republican leadership a clear mandate to reverse course on the failures of the last four years — they expect action, not endless deliberation. The House has delivered. Now it's time for the Senate to meet this moment with the urgency it demands. America's next Golden Age is within reach — but Republicans must come together in order for us to seize it. House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington represents Texas's 19th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He sits on the House Ways and Means Committee and the Joint Economic Committee. August Pfluger represents Texas's 11th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is the chairman of the Republican Study Committee and sits on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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