April 9, 2025, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement urging the House to pass the budget bill:
“In 2024, President Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans ran on using budget reconciliation to advance the GOP’s legislative agenda of making the Trump tax cuts permanent, passing no taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security, and securing the border. Since that time, hundreds of billions of potential savings have also been revealed by the White House Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that should provide additional room in the reconciliation bill for Republicans to achieve their mutual objectives if they are booked as outright rescissions and future budget cuts. As negotiations occur between the House and the Senate, the DOGE cuts should be put in there.
“This is not even the final bill or negotiation, this is just the framework initiating the reconciliation process so that both chambers can work together to get the ‘one big, beautiful bill’ that President Trump and the 77 million people who elected him are looking forward to and were promised.
“After peak inflation as we saw in 2022, the U.S. economy almost always goes into a slowdown or recession after the economy overheats and American households max out on their credit. Now is the time to lock in the Trump tax cuts and give certainty to households and small businesses that relief is on the way, come what may economically. If Congress fails to act, a tax hike is guaranteed to occur at the end of the year, which is the last thing we need headed into a potential slowdown that has been years in the making following the inflation of the Biden years. Work through whatever differences there are and act now while the House majority lasts, Mr. Speaker. Keep your promises! When we get to the midterms, the first question everyone is going to ask is what have Republicans accomplished in Congress?”
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