After the 119th Congress was sworn in on January 3, House Republicans hit the ground running to deliver on their promise to the American people to lower the cost of living, reduce frivolous government spending, secure our borders, and unleash energy dominance. Since then, every House committee has been working diligently to meet those demands and this week, we kicked off one of the most important steps in the reconciliation process with full committee markups.
Before any of this can happen, however, certain House committees are instructed to draft their recommendations to meet the instructions outlined by the budget resolution. Once each committee has passed their legislation package, they will then be submitted to and ultimately combined together by the Budget Committee to become “one big, beautiful bill” that will then make its way to the House Floor for a vote.
House Republicans have been working for months to finalize legislation that will reduce taxes and cut spending, and now we find ourselves in the first wave of reconciliation markups across several committees. As a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee, it was exciting to participate in our full committee markup, where we were tasked with reducing the federal deficit by no less than $10 billion, and our reconciliation package certainly reached that goal.
In fulfilling our mandate to bolster President Trump’s border and national security agenda, the committee is providing historic funding to the U.S. Coast Guard to stop the flow of illegal drugs and migrants from entering the country, bolstering the security of our communities and nation. In addition, the committee is providing funds to modernize our severely outdated air traffic control (ATC) technology, ushering our ATC systems into the modern era and strengthening the aviation community. We’re also putting our focus on cutting wasteful spending, rescinding funding for seven unnecessary Green New Deal style programs that were created in the Inflation Reduction Act. And lastly, the committee is ensuring that EVs no longer get a free ride and must begin contributing to the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) to support our nation’s highway system.
