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'The Alternative Isn't A Pretty One': Thune Discusses Need To Pass Budget Reconciliation Bill
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6/17/2025
At a Senate Republican press briefing on Tuesday, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) spoke about the Senate Finance Committee's portion of the budget reconciliation.
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good afternoon everyone everybody's over here today go figure we have received as
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you know from the house budget reconciliation bill the Senate now
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Finance Committee has completed its portion of it and it was released the
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text was last night we believe it leads to a stronger and more prosperous America
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and so we are excited to to get this bill out and on the floor I want to applaud
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the members of the Senate Finance Committee and particularly Chairman Mike
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Crapo for the yeoman's work that he did to ensure that this this product got out
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there everybody's had a chance now to look at it but we're excited about what it
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does for a number of reasons and it does create permanence in a lot of areas the
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tax code it makes permanent the 2017 tax cuts and Jobs Act rates it makes
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permanent the expanded child tax credit and increased standard deduction it
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makes permanent a lot of the business tax deductions which will lead to growth and
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expansion economy and better paying jobs and of course it includes many of
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President Trump's promises on the campaign trail including including no tax
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tax on tips no tax on overtime and reduced taxes for seniors and on the
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business side we believe that making permanent a lot of the business tax
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provisions will lead to that growth in the economy that will create those
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better-paying jobs and and lead to a stronger and a more prosperous country and
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obviously if you look at what happens if we don't do this the alternative isn't a
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pretty one I don't think it's a universe that anybody wants to live in because it
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means a four trillion dollar tax increase at the end of the year on the American
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people 2.6 trillion of that tax increase will fall on families making less than
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four hundred thousand dollars a year and six hundred billion dollars of that tax
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increase would hit small businesses that's the alternative if we don't take
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steps to act it also includes a number of reforms and strengthens Medicaid in a
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way that makes it stronger and and and gets it back to what it was designed to do and
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for the people it was intended to benefit and we had an opportunity today to hear
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from the CMS Administrator Dr. Oz he talked about some of those provisions in the bill
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and I'm going to ask him to come up and speak to that followed by Senator Brasso
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and then we'll be happy to take some of your questions Dr. Oz sorry there you are
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