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.

Washington, D.C. (May 21, 2025) | Rep. Barry Loudermilk (GA-11) issued the following statement after the House Committee on Financial Services passed his TAILOR Act (H.R. 3380):

“In 1776 Thomas Paine wrote, ‘…government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one…’ For many small businesses, trying to comply with droves of complex government regulations has become an intolerable evil, especially for our small community banks. Georgia has lost more banks than any other state, due to the overwhelming cost of government compliance.

“While big banks have an abundance of lawyers and compliance specialists to comply with the myriad of federal regulations, small firms struggle to meet these complex and often conflicting regulations. Small banks tell me that trying to comply with one-size-fits-all regulations is like a slow and painful death by a thousand cuts.

“This is why I introduced the TAILOR Act, which will require federal regulators to tailor their regulations in accordance with the size, business model, and risk of each type of firm that they regulate. This will allow these smaller banks and financial institutions to operate more efficiently, without fear of succumbing to the pressures of overly burdensome government regulations that were designed for big banks and larger financial institutions.”

Background
• This bill would require federal financial regulators to tailor the scope of their regulations to fit the risk profiles of individual business models.
• Currently, most regulatory tailoring is done by asset value. This has the unintended consequence of deterring banks from passing key milestones due to the new regulatory requirements that would kick in on the other side, thus slowing healthy growth.
• Risk-based tailoring is a much more customized approach, allowing banks to take healthy risks and truly innovate. Because the financial services industry can’t ‘innovate’ in the same way that a factory might innovate, by inventing a new and faster machine or process, much of the innovation depends on adopting new business models.

Click here to read full bill text

SAVE the Date! Jobs in the Skilled Trades are in even higher demand as President Trump seeks to reindustrialize the U.S. and uplift the American worker. Many of these jobs come with great salaries and benefits. My Congressional office is hosting our 5th Annual Skilled Trades Fair in September, and we’re inviting every high school student and adult, with an interest in pursuing these fulfilling careers, to seize this incredible opportunity to network with Georgia’s top trade schools and businesses.

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- H.R. 1 - One Big Beautiful Bill Act. (Sponsored by Rep. Arrington / Budget Committee)

- S.J. Res. 31 – Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to ‘‘Review of Final Rule Reclassification of Major Sources as Area Sources Under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act.’’ (Sponsored by Sen. Curtis / Energy and Commerce Committee)

- S.J. Res. 13 – Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency of the Department of the Treasury relating to the review of applications under the Bank Merger Act. (Sponsored by Sen. Kennedy / Financial Services Committee)

- H.R. 1815 – VA Home Loan Program Reform Act, as amended (Sponsored by Rep. Van Orden / Veterans’ Affairs Committee)

- H.R. 1286 – Simplifying Forms for Veterans Claims Act, as amended (Sponsored by Rep. Bresnahan / Veterans’ Affairs Committee)

Co-Sponsored Legislation:

1. H.R. 3411, the Conscience Protection Act

 - This legislation amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit discrimination against healthcare entities (health insurance companies, pharmacies, etc) that decline to provide abortion services on moral or religious beliefs. It also significantly strengthens the enforcement mechanisms for conscience protection laws, including the Church Amendments, Coats-Snowe Amendment, and Weldon Amendment. Implements a clear federal prohibition on penalizing or denying funding to individuals or organizations that refuse to perform, refer, pay for, or provide coverage for abortions.

 - Implements private right of action, allowing individuals and institutions to sue if their conscience rights are violated. Requires regulatory action and enforcement by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including investigation and corrective action via the Office for Civil Rights.

“Fraud Alert Friday" highlights waste, fraud, and abuse occurring across the federal government.

Alert: 

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, DOGE's official handle revealed that an internal audit found 198 out of 1,048 phone lines at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) were either unused or duplicated — roughly 19% of the total.

DOGE said canceling the lines took one hour and would save around $100,000 annually.

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DOGE Update: As of May 23, 2025, DOGE has saved American taxpayers $170 billion so far, breaking down to approximately $1,055.90 saved per taxpayer. To read more about the above alerts, click here, and see DOGE's recent social media post here.

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