Troy Nehls - Rep. Congressman - Reaction to Passing of the Big Beautiful Bill

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So after the Senate got done with the big beautiful bill,
is it's still beautiful or is it just kind of pretty?
Let's find out as we check in with the United
States Congressman Troy Nails. Congressman, it's coming back to you.
Balls in your court, huh.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
It is the balls in our court. We're going to
have the Democrats are going to put up a procedural
vote here, probably in the next ten minutes. It's ten
to nine on the East coast here, they'll probably do
a motion to adjourn. So there's going to be a
lot of procedural games being played today, throughout today, and
maybe even into tomorrow. But right now, speaking to some

(00:35):
of the other members, they're not really they're not too
excited about what the Senate did to some of this
legislation that we passed well over a month ago.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I saw Speaker Johnson on with Hannity last night and
he said, about eighty five percent of the bill is
the same as the bill that was passed by the House,
but it's the fifteen percent has a lot of changes
when you get right down to it, isn't.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
It it is? And a lot of it deals with
the Medicaid everybody's talking about that, but I think the
dishonest media is making it sound like we're just kicking
people off of Medicaid. Now we just think that able
bodied people. That's not what the program was made for,
and it just helps, you know, single families, poor people.
This was never created to put one point four million

(01:17):
illegals on it, So we have some significant cuts there.
That's a point of contention with some of the Senators,
as well as the salt the salt state local tax
dealing with the individuals up in New York. They want
to increase that to forty thousand. We had it at ten,
so there's some negotiations going on. I'm not happy about
the taxing of the endowments. We got twenty one percent.

(01:39):
We wanted to tax Harvard and twenty one percent on
the net earnings on the investments they've got billions, and
the Senate took it down to eight percent. I don't
understand why you would do that. We're leaving six billion
a year on the table by reducing it to eight percent.
I find it very very disturbing.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Comsman Nails. I think there's a couple of things too
that would probably surprise Trump. Supporters. Among the things that
the President promised were, uh, you know, first of all,
to make his tax de permanent. That's in there. But
the taxes on tips in overtime is just a reduction
in the taxes, not an elimination of the taxes as
he promised.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
That's right, and I think it's a good call to
to try to you know, whether it's a local waitress
or whoever, you know, try to help her out. Let's
not tax tips. But you got to find a way
to pay for those things. And I think this administration,
I think the boss is great. I think the administration
is saying, hey, listen, these these terroriffs are going to
bring in tens of billions, hundreds of billions of dollars

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into our treasury with all these terrorists and stuff. So
I think you're trying to find a way to pay
for all of these things. But I do believe it's
the right thing to do to try to have no
tax on tips. And even social security. We need to
give our seniors a break on social Security.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, that was the other thing I was going to mention,
is there is a evidently there's an increased tax deduction
for seniors, but there is there's not an elimination of
the tax of your Social Security benefits.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
That is correct. Initially we thought, hey, could we get
that in there. I think it was talked a little
bit about there in the campaign. But you're talking a
CBO score, you're talking one hundreds of billions of dollars.
You have to find a way to pay for those things.
You have to find a way to pay for the
tax cuts. And this bill that's coming back from the
Senate is like nine hundred and forty pages. One hundred

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of the nine forty is on my other committee, Judiciary.
I'm on Transportation and Infrastructure Judiciary. So we included a
bunch of fees for visas and anybody that wants to
apply for something coming through our southern border, there's a fee.
But the parliamentarian on the Senate side said that violated
what they call this bird rule. Thus it was stripped out,
So the Senate kind of a strange bird over there.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
To be honest with you, we're talking to Congressman Joy
Nails here on news radio seven forty KTRH. A couple
of the things I noticed, and maybe you can comment
on these briefly for me. I know you're just that
a lot of these deductions that were put into the
bill expire in twenty twenty eight. Why an expiration date
that I don't understand?

Speaker 2 (04:09):
And we tried to make it quicker too, like on
whether it's just SNAP benefits and stuff. They say, well,
it's not going to take effect until like twenty twenty nine.
They said, why do we have to wait so long?
So some will tell you, well, it takes an enormous
amount of coordination to try to implement what you want
to do with SNAP. It's going to take eighteen months,
two years. It shouldn't. It should almost be immediately after

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we pass the legislation. So and why do some of
them end in twenty twenty eight? I guess you have
to cut deals over there in the Senate because I
think we're a little bit more conservative. Believe it or not,
We've got some real conservative members over here. But you
look at the Senate, the real fiscal hawks. I didn't
see them. Cave. I saw them. Cave is what I saw.

(04:52):
Whether it's Mike Lee, and I respect them all, Ron
Johnson and Rick Scott out of Florida, but those aren't
the three guys that voted against this legislation coming back
to the House.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
I'm also thinking maybe one of the biggest problems will
be what the Senate did to raising the debt selling
Their version of the bill raises it to five trillion dollars,
twenty percent higher than the House's proposal. I'm not thinking
chip Roy is going to go for that.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Well, it's not only whether it's chip Roy, there are
others as well. So I personally believe you can send
this bill over here and try to jam us up
against the July fourth holiday. Now why July fourth? The
President wants to sign a bill on July fourth. Listen,
I respect the hell out of the President. If he
wants it done, let's get it done. But this doesn't
give us a whole lot of time to send the
bill back. I believe we should make some adjustments and

(05:39):
send this bill back to the Senate for them to
vote on it, and then go to the White House.
Because I think there's whether it's chip Roy and some
of the others, the hardliners, it may not get through
the House today. And so what do we do then?
Do we wait? Do we continue to wait, Let's make
some adjustments, send it back to the Senate, pass.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
The Bill all right. Congressman, thank you Zwys for your times.
I know you've got a lot of work to do.
We'll let you get back out of those Congressman Troy
Nails