U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined CNN to discuss how crucial it is to pass the Big Beautiful Bill.
Watch the full interview HERE.
Daines emphasized the need to prevent the largest tax increase in America’s history:
The President was very clear that we simply must prevent the largest tax increase in American history, which is coming if Congress does not act. Number two, I think really the growth issues. What can we do to grow the economy? Because when we grow the economy wages increase, and we’ve also got the issue of Chinese competition. There are provisions in this tax bill to incentivize American businesses to not only manufacture here in the United States, but also to make sure that we’re investing in research and development because we’ve got to drive the strongest innovation ecosystem in the world to compete long term and to win in global markets.
Daines explained how the bill will root out waste in the Medicaid program and help those truly in need:
President Trump made that very clear today in our meeting that we’re going to go after the waste, the fraud, and the abuse, but we want to make sure we protect and keep this important safety net of Medicaid. One of the problems we face with this very important safety net is you’ve got 1.4 million illegal immigrants on Medicaid when it should be for those who really need American citizens. We’ve got situations where you’ve got able-bodied American people that can work. We want to incentivize them to get off of Medicaid and back onto private insurance by getting a job. And so those are some of the reforms that we’re looking at for Medicaid, but the president made it very clear. He doesn’t want to see any deserving men and women, or children that need Medicaid to be cut from it.
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