Commentary: Straight Talk with Sam

U.S. Rep. Sam Graves R-Missouri

Dear Friend,

Over the last four years, President Biden’s reckless and wasteful spending caused out-of-control inflation that drove the price of gas, groceries and everything in between through the roof. While prices soared, paychecks didn’t, and working families got squeezed. Americans elected President Trump and congressional Republicans to get our country back on track, and that’s exactly what we’re working to do.

This week, the House passed President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which cuts hundreds of billions of dollars in wasteful spending and provides American families with the tax relief they need to make ends meet. Our bill makes the tax cuts from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent, preventing a massive tax hike on American families, and fulfills the President’s promises to eliminate taxes on tips, overtime pay and car loan interest.

For family farmers, the death tax exemption is increased and made permanent, as are small business deductions and expensing, ensuring our family farms have the tools they need to succeed. That may sound like accountant jargon, but it’s real dollars and cents for folks across north Missouri.

All this is welcome news for people who work for a living, but there’s more to look forward to in this big, beautiful bill. As chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, I led efforts to kill billions in wasteful Green New Deal programs and strengthen our Highway Trust Fund while investing more in our Coast Guard’s mission to keep our border secure, so they could intercept drugs and keep illegal immigrants out of our country. We also took action to modernize our outdated air traffic control system, which was desperately needed to keep the flying public safe.

Furthermore, the bill builds the border wall, strengthens our national defense and ends the Biden Administration’s anti-American energy policies, opening the door to lower energy prices for all Americans.

That barely scratches the surface of the critical changes that were passed. However, to ensure that the One Big Beautiful Bill becomes law and everyday Americans see permanent tax relief, the Senate is going to have to act and get the bill to President Trump. I look forward to that happening, so we can ensure that American families, farmers and small businesses are able to keep more of their hard-earned money for generations to come.

Sincerely,

Sam Graves