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WASHINGTON — This morning, at the weekly House Republican Leadership press conference, Speaker Johnson discussed House Republicans’ historic work in the 119th Congress to bring down costs for working families, fix Democrats’ broken health care system, and rid American streets of violent criminals and dangerous illegal aliens.

Watch Speaker Johnson’s full remarks here

On the Working Families Tax Cut:

We did so much of it in the One Big Beautiful Bill, the Working Families Tax Cut. There's so much to talk about, it's as if it just got brushed aside. But the component pieces of that are some of the most nation-shaping, productive, pro-growth policies that have ever occurred to help all Americans. And we look forward to all the provisions of that bill being implemented, beginning really in earnest in the first part of the year. The first quarter and second quarter will be a very different scenario. But we're excited to go through that. We can't fix everything overnight. And the Biden-Harris administration, as we said so many times, in four years, really destroyed almost every metric of public policy. We're don't get to flip a switch to do that. It takes some time. And we've been working earnestly and around the clock to do that, to work on solutions, to solve all those problems, and to make government more efficient, effective, and responsive.

Republicans have been delivering and working to bring down costs for American families, to fix the Democrats’ broken health care system, and to rid our streets of violent criminals and dangerous illegal aliens. All this has been our goal since January, and we've been delivering. And as the year comes to an end, we started to reflect upon what we've done in that first 10 months, and ultimately the first 12 months. And it's really something. The Working Families Tax Cut. Let me just tell you some of the components of that, because people seem to have forgotten.

It was a permanent extension of the 2017 tax cuts, which collectively is the biggest tax cut in US history. Had we not passed the big bill, we would've had a $5 trillion tax increase on all hardworking American families if that expired in December. It was a marquee achievement. We also included permanent estate tax relief extensions. We had landmark Medicaid program reforms, which the CBO has said is going to save $185 billion and reduce premiums on everybody for their health care. We expanded the SNAP work requirements to get ineligible recipients off, young, able-bodied men with no dependents or health problems. They shouldn't be riding the wagon and they won't anymore. In the bill, we increased border enforcement and funding and made generational investments in those things. And it's worked because guess what? The border is sealed, and we don't have all these illegals coming across the border anymore. We included no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, increased standard deduction for seniors, free tax savings accounts for every child born in America, which will be announcing at a White House, in an event this afternoon. Business tax provisions to incentivize investments and innovation. That's all in the bill and much more.

On House Republicans’ legislative agenda so far:

We codified 67 of President Trump's America First executive orders so far, and there are many more to come. We repealed by Biden-era regulations with 23 Congressional Review Act resolutions. Now, this is important too. We've been making history along the way over the last 10 months; in the entire time that CRA's have been part of the law, only 20 had been signed into law since the inception of that instrument. This year alone, we have already passed 23 of those out of the House, and 16 of those have been signed into law. That's a big thing. We've restored regular order to the appropriations process. And y'all know what a big thing that was – a goal of mine since I became Speaker a little over two years ago was to restore regular order.

Because instead of governing by an omnibus before Christmas, which is no way to do stewardship, we wanted to get back to 12 separate appropriations bills. And as you saw, when we reopened government, one of the things the President signed was three regular order appropriations bills signed into law. What a marquee achievement. We had Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction-VA bill signed into law. And both chambers and the appropriators are working right now to put the next bills, get them prepared, and get them enacted and signed into law. Also, in the last 10 months, we defunded wasteful spending through rescissions, billions of dollars there. We passed and signed into a law, the GENIUS Act, the bipartisan landmark crypto legislation. We passed and signed into a law, the Laken Riley Act, the HALT Fentanyl Act, and the TAKE IT DOWN Act. And the House has passed the SAVE Act, the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, Protecting American Energy Production Act, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. Fix Our Forests Act, the TICKET Act, Unlocking Our Domestic LNG Potential Act, American Entrepreneurs First Act, Stop Illegal Entry Act, Made-in-American Defense Act. I could go on and on and on. Remember, these are just the top lines. The House has passed 331 pieces of legislation this year that will directly improve the quality of life for millions of American families.

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