{"id":193037,"date":"2025-07-03T15:52:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=193037"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:52:23","slug":"rep-mcclintock-remarks-on-the-big-beautiful-bill-lower-taxes-lighter-regulations-a-secure-border-more-frugal-government-and-a-war-on-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=193037","title":{"rendered":"Rep. McClintock Remarks on the Big Beautiful Bill: Lower Taxes, Lighter Regulations, a Secure Border, More Frugal Government and a War on Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C&#8230;Today, Rep. Tom McClintock delivered remarks on the House Floor preceding the final vote on the Big Beautiful Bill:  This bill fulfills many of our promises to the American people: lower taxes, lighter regulations, a secure border, more frugal government and a war on waste.  Throughout history, these are the policies that have produced prosperity and security and there is every reason to believe they will again. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oN3gO90bx80\" title=\"Big Beautiful Bill: Lower Taxes, a Secure Border, More Frugal Government and a War on Waste\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I remind my conservative friends who say this bill doesn\u2019t go far enough: our process was not designed to make perfect law \u2013 it was designed to make the best law that is acceptable to a majority.  Judging by the narrow votes, we have pushed this bill about as far toward perfection as the process allows.<\/p>\n<p>The proof is not in the talking points made today, but next year, when Americans will ask themselves if they are better off.  I believe because of this bill, the answer will be a resounding YES.  And perhaps that is what the Democrats fear most.<\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C&#8230;Today, Rep. Tom McClintock delivered remarks on the House Floor preceding the final vote on the Big Beautiful Bill: This bill fulfills many of our promises to the American people: lower taxes, lighter regulations, a secure border, more frugal government and a war on waste. Throughout history, these are the policies that have produced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Fullscreen-capture-732025-34757-PM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193039,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193037\/revisions\/193039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}