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April 10, 2025
Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) released the following statement on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for March 2025, which showed year-over-year inflation dropping to 2.4 percent: “Today’s inflation report shows that prices dropped more in March than any month since May 2020. This is proof of the Trump effect in action.” “Nearly three months ago, President Trump took office and immediately kicked off our Golden Age by securing hundreds of billions in ne… Continue Reading
April 10, 2025Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed by a vote of 216-214 the FY25 Concurrent Budget Resolution as amended by the U.S. Senate. This is the first time a Republican-controlled Congress has passed a budget resolution since 2017. House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) released the following statement: “The fiscal state of the nation is in rapid decline. Our out-of-control deficit spending and unsustainable debt are the greatest threat to our country and our children’s… Continue Reading
April 09, 2025Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) testified before the House Rules Committee, where he championed the importance of adhering to the blueprint established in the House-passed budget resolution once the reconciliation process is unlocked. The FY25 Concurrent Budget Resolution paves the way for lawmakers to enact President Trump’s transformative America-First agenda through “one big beautiful bill.” Opening Remarks as Prepared:In the most historic election of our lif… Continue Reading
April 17, 2025
A recent Cato Institute and YouGov poll, highlighted in a blog post by Cato’s Adam Michel, reveals that Americans across the political spectrum support pairing tax cuts with significant spending reductions. The poll found 81 percent of Americans feel they cannot afford higher taxes next year and 85 percent of Americans support extending the 2017 tax cuts if it prevents an average tax increase of $1,000 to $2,000 per person. Americans want permanent tax cuts because they would support working fam… Continue Reading
April 16, 2025
The Medicaid program is a critical lifeline for the most vulnerable Americans. House Republicans are committed to strengthening and protecting Medicaid so it can continueserving the most vulnerable Americans it was intended to serve—namely, low-income pregnant women, children, those living with disabilities, and seniors, for generations to come. Unchecked spending on means-tested welfare programs is a main driver of today’s massive debt. In 2023 alone, spending totaled $1.6 trillion, accounting… Continue Reading
March 26, 2025
According to the California Department of Finance, the State of California will spend more than $8.4 billion on taxpayer-funded Medicaid health benefits for illegal aliens this fiscal year, over $5 billion more than initially estimated. Last year, California became the first state to offer free, taxpayer-funded health care through Medicaid to all illegal aliens in the state. This expansion is proving far costlier than originally projected and is already straining the Medi-Cal program that vuln… 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
