Heritage Action engaged with lawmakers throughout the reconciliation process and the final bill has more than enough to be considered a big win. What's more, it accomplishes President Trump’s primary objective: it puts the American people first. Here’s how:
Tax Cuts for the American People: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act extends and makes permanent popular provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act including lower tax rates for all Americans, expansion of the standard deduction to support families, and pro-growth business expensing provisions to create jobs.
Border Security and Immigration Enforcement: The bill makes critical investments to finish the wall, support immigration enforcement, and restore America’s national defense after years of decay under the previous administration.
Welfare Reform: It also takes meaningful steps to address the skyrocketing costs of the SNAP program (food stamps), which has more than doubled in less than a decade, by making meaningful reforms to support our most vulnerable populations.
Unleashing American Energy: Americans have become keenly aware of the urgency of American energy dominance, and this bill takes major strides to both increase energy independence and scale back green energy IRA tax credit giveaways.
Defending Life: It champions conservative values like protecting the unborn by defunding abortion providers like Planned Parenthood and advancing pro-family policies like the Child Tax Credit.
Furthermore, the Senate negotiated down the state and local tax (SALT) deduction from the original House-passed level to limit the expanded distortions from this provision to five years.
Three Big Beautiful Key Votes:
Heritage Action issued three key votes this week:
Sen. Rick Scott’s Medicaid Reform Amendment (Amendment #2554): Heritage Action supported this proposed Senate amendment, which addressed runaway Medicaid spending. Unfortunately, the amendment never received a vote.
Senate Passage of OB3: Heritage Action supported Senate passage of the bill on Tuesday. It passed by a vote of 51-50 (tie breaking vote from Vice President Vance).
House Passage of OB3: Heritage Action supported House passage of the bill on Thursday. It passed by a vote of 218-214.
What’s next?
After months of intense negotiations and many late nights, the One Big Beautiful Bill is finally enacted — but Congress’ work is far from finished. Republicans were given a mandate for change, and now that reconciliation is done, it’s time to move onto the next immediate priority: rescissions.
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