Rep. Barry Loudermilk (GA-11) issued the following statement on the House of Representatives passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act.
“Today, my Republican colleagues and I passed President Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill Act — a historic win for the American people. An extensive amount of work went into this legislation, which will extend tax cuts for hard-working Americans, unleash American energy stifled by the Democrats’ Green New scam, and provide much-needed support for our brave Border Patrol agents. This bill also gives the administration the tools to investigate, expose and cut fraud, waste, and abuse within federal government agencies, while protecting the core services that many Americans rely upon.
“This is a historic bill aimed at delivering on the mandate the American people gave us in November. Republicans have ensured that Americans can keep more of what they earn, and pay lower prices for food and gas, as a result of our pro-energy approach. Americans can also expect a return to a safer nation, as we equip Border Patrol and Homeland Security with the tools needed to expel foreign terrorists and criminals — and to keep them from returning. The Big, Beautiful Bill is the pro-family, pro-America policy needed to restore American excellence at home and abroad.”
Background
Border Security
• Provides funding for 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel.
• Provides funding for detention capacity sufficient to maintain an average daily population of at least 100,000 aliens.
• Provides funding for at least one million annual removals.
• Introduces a new series of fees that provide funding and resources to various agencies.
• Funds the hiring of 10,000 new ICE agents and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) criminal investigators
• Codifies permanent fees for immigration services, to ensure cost recovery and reduce the federal deficit.
• Provides $12 billion to reimburse states for actions taken to deter, mitigate, or prevent unlawful or illicit activities related to border security.
Permanent Extension of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
• Makes the 2017 Trump-era tax cuts permanent – protecting the average taxpayer from a 22 percent tax hike.
• Saves the average American family $1,700 – the equivalent of 9 weeks of groceries.
• Increases real annual take-home pay for a median-income household with two children by roughly $4,000 to $5,000.
• Raises annual real wages by $2,100 to $3,300 per worker.
• Delivers on President Trump’s priorities of no tax on tips, overtime pay, or car loan interest, and provides additional tax relief for our seniors.
• Repeals the requirement for firearm silencers and takes the manufacturer tax on silencers to $0
• Locks in and boosts the doubled Child Tax Credit for more than 40 million families, and provides additional tax relief for American families.
• Supports working families by expanding access to childcare and making the paid leave tax credit permanent.
• Puts American families in control of their health care by expanding health savings accounts and cementing into law a Trump Administration policy that offers more choice and flexibility for health coverage options.
• Starts building financial security for America’s children, at birth, with the creation of new savings accounts.
Unleashes American Energy
• Reinstates quarterly onshore oil and gas lease sales, generating $12 billion in revenue.
• Mandates at least thirty lease sales in the Gulf of America over the next fifteen years, and six in the Cook Inlet, generating billions of dollars in new revenue.
• Returns to reasonable oil and natural gas royalty rates.
• Requires geothermal lease sales, generating $23 million in new revenue.
• Resumes leasing for energy production in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, generating over $1 billion in new revenue and savings.
• Resumes coal leasing on federal lands.
• Increases timber sales on federal lands and requires long-term timber contracts.