During Tuesday's House Republicans' press briefing, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) discussed the negotiations on the one big beautiful bill.
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00:00Thank you, Whip. Well, this morning, President Trump had a strong and clear message to a packed House Republican conference. And that is after months of long, intense discussions over really important differences and issues.
00:17This one big, beautiful bill has come through the committee process and it's time to end the negotiations, unify behind this bill and get it passed on to the Senate.
00:30And what President Trump really talked about was the things that we all talked about during the campaign, how important it was to prevent a tax increase on working class families.
00:42Low and middle income families would see a large, painful tax increase if this bill were not to happen.
00:50And look, we all know every Democrat is going to vote no. They've bragged about it.
00:54They are fighting tooth and nail to stop us from preventing a tax increase.
01:00Democrats also made it clear they want open borders and they sure don't want the provisions of this bill.
01:06As Chairman Green and Chairman Jordan talked about, that will give our Border Patrol agents the tools they've been asking for for years to finally have the technology to be able to compete with the drug cartels and have better tools than the cartels of Mexico have to secure our border, to complete construction of the wall, to deport criminals who came to America to harm our citizens.
01:31And President Trump is finally following through, following through on that promise to secure our border, but he needs more tools to do it.
01:39Something we also ran on was producing more energy in America.
01:44And this bill reverses the Biden era policies that shut off American energy, making our country more dependent on hostile nations, giving Putin billions of dollars a month more to fund his war in Ukraine.
02:00By shutting American energy off.
02:02This bill opens it back up again.
02:04It generates more money.
02:06It generates opportunity for families.
02:08It generates higher wages for hardworking taxpayers.
02:12It will generate real economic growth to lower inflation, the lower costs at the grocery store, to lower interest rates.
02:20All the things that 77 million voters gave us a mandate to go deliver on.
02:27I know that we've got a few final issues to resolve, but as President Trump said today, it's time to stop the talking and we need action.
02:38We need to deliver for those families who have been waiting way too long for the results that are in this one big, beautiful bill.
02:44A lot of great policies to deliver for those families is just waiting.
02:49We're going to deliver this week.
02:50We're going to bring the bill.
02:51Failure absolutely is not an option.
02:54We've got to get this done.
02:55The man leading that charge here in the House, who President Trump had some great words about, is our Speaker, Mike Johnson.