A leading House conservative and member of the Budget Committee used his time in a committee hearing on the so-called \u201cBig Beautiful Bill\u201d spending package to explain that the bill does little to reform spending and the supposed spending cuts are pushed to future years, giving future congresses and the next president time to repeal them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy explained that while the bill does deliver tax relief it dramatically increases budget deficits by putting off spending reform:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I appreciate my friend from Texas, the chairman, and you know, my Democratic colleagues keep telling things that are not true. The vast majority of Americans will get tax benefits under this bill. It\u2019s just simply false to say that that\u2019s not true. Hardworking Americans who will benefit from the standard deduction increase, hardworking Americans who will benefit from child tax credits and lower tax rates\u2014stop saying things that aren\u2019t true. Those things are true. The fact is, we have money in here for the border to undo the damage of Joe Biden. We have more money in here for defense to undo the damage of Joe Biden, but we also address Medicaid and Medicaid spending goes up. Stop lying. Medicaid spending goes up. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle are profoundly unserious when it comes to being real about what\u2019s happening with the numbers. I applaud Chairman Arrington. I applaud my colleagues on this side of the aisle for taking a step forward in dealing with the spending problem in this town.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n But I have to now admonish my colleagues on this side of the aisle: this bill falls profoundly short. It does not do what we say it does with respect to deficits. The fact of the matter is, on the spending, what we\u2019re dealing with here is tax cuts and spending a massive front-loaded deficit increase. That\u2019s the truth. That\u2019s the truth. Deficits will go up in the first half of the 10-year budget window. And we all know it\u2019s true, and we shouldn\u2019t do that. We shouldn\u2019t say that we\u2019re doing something we\u2019re not doing.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The fact of the matter is, this bill has back-loaded savings and front-loaded spending, nowhere near the Senate Budget top line, by the way. The Senate Budget top line of six and a half trillion dollars, which, by the way, is what we were pre-COVID, inflation-adjusted, on interest, on Medicare and Social Security. And if we would reform Medicaid, we could actually get to the core of the problem, but we refuse to do it. And I\u2019m not going to sit here and say that everything is hunky-dory when this is the Budget Committee. This is the Budget Committee. We are supposed to do something to actually result in balanced budgets, but we\u2019re not doing it. Look at what happens under deficits… Only in Washington are we expected to bet on the come that in five years, everything will work, then we will solve the problem.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We have got to change the direction of this town, and to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle: yes, that means touching Medicaid. It went from $400 billion in 2019 to $600 billion this year. It\u2019ll be over a trillion in the 2030s. We are making promises that we cannot keep. We do need to reform it. We need to stop giving seven times as much money to the able-bodied over the vulnerable. Why are we sticking it to the vulnerable population, the disabled and the sick, to give money to single able-bodied male adults? We shouldn\u2019t do that. We should reform it. But guess what? That message needs to be delivered to my colleagues on this side of the aisle too.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We are writing checks we cannot cash, and our children are going to pay the price. So I am a no on this bill unless serious reforms are made today, tomorrow, Sunday. We\u2019re having conversations as we speak, but something needs to change, or you\u2019re not going to get my support.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A leading House conservative and member of the Budget Committee used his time in a committee hearing on the so-called \u201cBig Beautiful Bill\u201d spending package to explain that the bill does little to reform spending and the supposed spending cuts are pushed to future years, giving future congresses and the next president time to repeal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1745,1748,514,275,15],"class_list":["post-9657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-big-beautiful-bill","tag-budget-committee","tag-commentary","tag-congress","tag-trump-administration"],"yoast_head":"\n