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I voted this week to provide historic tax relief to Riverside County families and allow them to keep more of the money they earned. This tax and budget bill protects the average taxpayer from a looming 22% tax increase. It also creates new tax benefits for American workers, including no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and an expanded child tax credit. To further help taxpayers, the bill includes a new tax deduction for seniors as well as an expanded state and local tax (SALT) deduction. At the end of the day, my vote for this bill fulfills my commitment to 41st District constituents to lower their taxes and help put more money in their pocket.
The bill includes the following tax relief provisions to help American taxpayers:
- Prevents a $4 trillion tax increase on Americans
- No tax on tips
- No tax on overtime
- Expanded Child Tax Credit (now $2,2200 per child)
- New tax deduction for seniors
- Expanded state and local tax (SALT) deduction
The bill also includes vital national security funding that will ensure America has the resources necessary to defend our shores and sky from adversaries. Combined with our regular defense appropriations, these funds will help modernize our military and leverage our country’s innovation edge. The bill also secures our border by completing the border wall and provides funding to stop the importation of deadly drugs into our country.
The bill includes the following national security and border security provisions:
- Funds the Golden Dome missile defense system to confront 2lst-century threats.
- Delivers the largest Coast Guard upgrade since WWII – stopping fentanyl and criminal cartels by sea.
- Finishes Phase Two of the border wall.
I know how important healthcare is to American families. That’s why I have worked with my colleagues to protect and strengthen Medicare and Medicaid. Let me be clear - the bill does NOT cut Medicare or Medicaid benefits for our seniors, the disabled, children or parents with dependents. Our bill does establish a new work requirement for able-bodied working-age adults without children. This work requirement applies to healthy working-age adults without children and conditions benefit eligibility to people who work, volunteer, or attend college/vocational training for at least 20 hours a week. I believe this is a reasonable reform to Medicaid because it strengthens the program for the disabled, children, parents, and seniors the program was designed to help. It also protects taxpayers. I don’t believe it’s fair to ask a taxpayer who works 40 hours a week to support their family to have their tax dollars go towards providing Medicaid benefits for healthy working-age adults without children who refuse to work.
The bill protects and strengthens Medicaid for those who rely on it by:
- Eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse.
- Blocking illegal immigrants from receiving benefits.
- Enforcing work requirements.
- Protecting Medicaid for the truly vulnerable.
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