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June 19, 2025
The Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds released the 2025 reports on the current and projected financial status of the two respective programs. The reports emphasize the dire financial state of our nation’s most vital retirement and health programs. House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) released the following statement in response to the reports: “We must stop preying on the fears of our seniors, put down the political weapons, and prioritize American… Continue Reading
June 09, 2025The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report on the ‘Effects of the Surge in Immigration on State and Local Budgets in 2023’. The report shows that the Biden-era immigration surge amounted to a direct net cost of $9.8 billion to state and local governments in 2023 alone. House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) released the following statement: “The cost of the border crisis is real, and finally - after years of claiming illegal immigration saved money - the CBO is … Continue Reading
June 06, 2025Today, House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) and Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger (R-Texas) published an op-ed in The Hill highlighting the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s role in advancing the President’s America First agenda and calling on the Senate to pass it swiftly. WORD ON THE STREET From Chairman Arrington and RSC Chairman Pfluger in The Hill: The House of Representatives has delivered on the American people’s mandate by passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Ac… Continue Reading
June 10, 2025
The Medicaid program is a vital safety net for low-income children, pregnant women, individuals with disabilities, and seniors. Its original mission has been undermined by the unchecked expansion under ObamaCare, which shifted funding and focus away from the most vulnerable and towards able-bodied, working-age adults without dependents. Currently, Medicaid has no federal work requirement and states receive more federal funds to cover able-bodied adults than they do for vulnerable individuals … Continue Reading
June 04, 2025
The Medicaid program is a critical lifeline for the most vulnerable Americans— low-income pregnant women, children, those living with disabilities, and seniors. However, Medicaid has expanded well beyond its intended purpose and is fraught with waste, fraud, and abuse. Currently, Medicaid lacks a work requirement for able-bodied adults. Because of Obamacare Medicaid expansion, the federal government pays states more to cover working-age, single men than it does for vulnerable pregnant women or … Continue Reading
May 06, 2025
House Republicans are committed to strengthening and protecting the Medicaid program as a critical lifeline for the most vulnerable Americansit was intended to serve, such as low-income pregnant women, children, people with disabilities, and the elderly.However, Medicaid has expanded well beyond its original purpose into a program fraught with waste, fraud, and abuse. Not only does Medicaid lack a work requirement for able-bodied adults, but in many cases the federal government pays states more… Continue Reading
February 25, 2025
Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) penned an op-ed in theWashington Examinermaking the case for hisTrump-endorsed House budget resolution that delivers on the President’s transformative America-First agenda with one comprehensive piece of legislation. Chairman Arrington in the Washington Examiner: “The House Budget Committee has taken a decisive first step in advancing President Trump’s America First agenda. By pursuing the 2025 Budget Resolution, we have launched… Continue Reading
January 30, 2025U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal highlighting how surging debt and resulting interest costs are threatening America’s economic standing and the historic opportunity for President Trump and congressional Republicans to restore fiscal sanity to Washington. Chairman Arrington in The Wall Street Journal: “Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is concerned about America’s large and growing national deficit. “We have never seen this… Continue Reading
December 12, 2024Yesterday, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) penned an Op-Ed in the Washington Examiner sounding the alarm on the federal government’s unbridled spending habits and the need to restore fiscal responsibility in Washington. Chairman Arrington in the Washington Examiner: Via the Washington Examiner: “The Democrats’ spending spree in Washington during 2021 and 2022 sparked countless economic problems. Runaway government spending drove skyrocketing prices, draining household s… Continue Reading
