House Speaker Mike Johnson is touting various provisions in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” that he argues delivers on Republicans’ campaign promises to put Americans first.
House GOP leadership has gone to the mat to defend the House-passed version of the president’s sweeping tax and spending bill, which they argue makes historic investments in border security and contains the largest reduction to mandatory spending within a budget bill in American history. The president’s landmark bill is currently under consideration in the Senate as Republicans are hurrying to send the budget bill to the White House for signature by a July 4 deadline.
“President Trump and Congressional Republicans promised to put Americans first, and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act delivers,” Johnson told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an exclusive statement. “It’s been decades since Congress has crafted a piece of legislation that includes so many significant wins for the American people.”
“There are historic investments in border security and mass deportations, tax incentives to build, buy, and sell in America, and provisions to ensure illegals can’t receive taxpayer benefits,” Johnson added. “This bill has something for every American — and nothing for illegal aliens or foreign governments who have ripped off the American taxpayer for far too long.”
The House-passed One, Big Beautiful Bill Act enhances border security by funneling $150 billion into immigration enforcement and fast-tracking the president’s deportation agenda. This funding includes resources to hire up to 3,000 new Border Patrol agents and 5,000 new Office of Field Operations customs officers, according to information provided to the DCNF by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer’s office.
Paul Perez, president of the National Border Patrol council, the union that represents rank and file Border Patrol agents, previously told the DCNF that the legislation makes a “once in a generation investment” in border security.
The president’s landmark bill will aid the president’s deportation efforts by providing funding to hire roughly 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and Homeland Security criminal investigators, according to immigration-related provisions in the bill.
The bill also provides for roughly $12 billion in reimbursements to border states that footed the bill for their own security efforts amid former President Joe Biden’s failure to stem the influx of illegal immigration into the United States. Members of House Republicans’ Texas delegation, including Republican Rep. August Pfluger, pushed for the spending package to include the border state reimbursements provision. The Senate-proposed bill goes further and increases border reimbursement funding to $13.5 billion following Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn’s advocacy.
The president’s budget bill carries out America First policies by cracking down on taxpayer-funded benefits to illegal immigrants, including a provision to penalize states who offer Medicaid coverage to noncitizens through state funds.
The bill also enacts a 5% fee on money transfers from noncitizens in the United States to individuals in other countries, which the U.S. Joint Committee on Taxation has projected will generate more than $20 billion in revenue over a decade. The remittance tax will help pay for the president’s tax relief priorities and help deter illegal immigration, according to the provision’s proponents.
The House Republicans’ product would also impose additional fees on foreign nationals seeking various forms of legal status, which would raise an estimated $77 million through a ten-year budget window. The provisions include a $1,000 fee to process an asylum claim and sponsorship fees for migrant children of up to $8,500.
The bill notably includes provisions delivering on several of Trump’s campaign promises, including temporarily eliminating taxes on tips and overtime pay for certain Americans and extending the president’s 2017 tax cuts, which GOP lawmakers say would avert a combined $4.5 trillion tax increase on the majority of households.
Senate Republicans are aiming to pass the president’s budget bill through the upper chamber by the end of next week. The House will then vote on the package for a second time before sending the legislation to Trump’s desk for signature.
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