Rep. Roy Statement on House Passage of The One Big Beautiful Bill Act

Washington, D.C. — Representative Chip Roy (TX-21) issued the following statement after the House passed The One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The bill now heads to the Senate for consideration.

"After much deliberation, I voted yes on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. 
 
Months ago, I worked to ensure that any tax cuts or extensions would be connected to an equal or greater amount of spending cuts to force fiscal discipline.  The good news is that the bill technically held true to that framework by yielding modest deficit reduction over a 10-year budget window.  Importantly, it does this by cutting spending $1.5 trillion over 10 years, reforming programs like Medicaid and SNAP with work requirements, and improving healthcare freedom by expanding health savings accounts to allow use with Direct Primary Care.
 
But the good things didn’t just happen by accident. 
 
My fellow budget hawk colleagues and I, including many in the House Freedom Caucus, forced reforms that were critical to making the bill more responsible. We:

• Accelerated Medicaid work requirements 3 years from 2029 to 2026.
• Helped stave off further Obamacare expansion by aligning State Directed Payments (SDPs) in Medicaid to the rates of Medicare in Medicaid expansion states while allowing states that have not expanded Medicaid (ex., TX) to have SDPs at 110% of Medicare.
• Froze the state provider taxes to ensure states don’t grow their money laundering schemes.
• Paid Texas and other states back for their border efforts under the Biden administration.
• Began to claw back the “Green New Scam” put on steroids by the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) corrupt subsidies – namely by putting in place a required construction start within 60 days of enactment and a much earlier “in service” requirement of 12/31/28 – all designed to limit the reach of subsidies.

To be clear, I didn’t vote for the bill without significant reservations. 
 
For example, in classic Washington fashion, the bill produces sizable deficits in the first 5 years while achieving “savings” in the future, which means we’ve got to bring forward more savings than I already fought for.
 
And as with most major bills in Washington, this bill was rushed, mashed together, and crammed through the House without sufficient time to review every item carefully.  We should do better.
 
The Medicaid money laundering scam was not reformed sufficiently, and far too many of the new green scam subsidies continue to operate.
 
And inexplicably, we funded high-tax state jurisdictions with a $350 billion tax deduction for their “SALT” tax deductions – something I strongly oppose.
 
But even though I supported this bill out of the House, this bill needs massive improvements if we are to make a dent in our deficit or to change the trajectory of this country.  
 
We must reduce deficits much further, even as we continue to work to FULLY repeal the IRA’s unreliable energy subsidies and reduce the damage done by Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.  We can do this most efficiently with state block grants – but we can also reduce the 90% FMAP for able bodied people – ensuring states are not getting seven times more money for able bodied adults with no children over the most vulnerable in traditional Medicaid – and reducing provider taxes to end the unnecessary inflation of costs in healthcare.  
 
I stand ready to work with my colleagues in the Senate to continue to get this bill right before sending it to the President’s desk."

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