BOISE, Idaho – In an interview with Idaho Falls’ NewsTalk Radio, U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) celebrated Republicans’ historic tax cuts for working families and key achievements of the budget reconciliation package. 

Click here to listen to Senator Risch’s interview on NewsTalk Radio.

Excerpts from Senator Risch’s Interview: 

“If [the One, Big, Beautiful Bill] had not been passed, it would have resulted in the largest tax increase in history for American taxpayers.

“The 2017 tax cuts that we put in place in [President Trump’s first term] were set to expire…Had that happened at the end of the year, there would have been a huge tax increase. Instead, we preserved those tax cuts and, in addition to that, [the bill] has the largest tax cuts for working Idahoans in history. No tax on tips, no tax on overtime pay, and a number of other things that are very helpful for working Idahoans. 

“Secondly, it secures the southern border and provides the money that’s needed for immigration enforcement, which is, of course, what [President Trump] ran on and what the American people wanted and what we’re in the process of doing.

“It cuts $1.6 trillion in federal spending. We needed to do that. Before COVID, [the federal government was] spending $4 trillion a year. We’re now spending $7 trillion a year. We’re running up a debt of a trillion dollars every 150 days. This has to change, and this bill does that.

“It ends the Green New Deal, also known as the Green New Scam. It does not sell off public lands, and it preserves Medicare with common-sense reforms.”