All Things with Kim Strassel: The House Tackles Tax Cuts and Spending

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Donald Trump’s executive actions have been dominating Washington news, yet the fate of his agenda rests in his historically slim majority in the U.S. House. That House GOP is finally focusing on a budget bill to provide Trump border and defense dollars, and extend the 2017 tax cuts. But will a famously fractious Republican House conference once again fail to come together? On this episode of All Things, House Republican Policy Chair Kevin Hern gives the latest on the budget reconciliation fight, breaks down the GOP's tax- and spending-cut priorities, explains where DOGE fits in, and discusses the new Democratic threat of a government shutdown. He also dives into one of his own priorities--explaining where the federal government can aid in the state school-choice revolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is All Things with Kim Strassel,
0:35.3	a Potomac Watch podcast. Welcome to All Things with Kim Strassel, a Potomac Watch podcast. Welcome to All Things with Kim
0:39.2	Strassel. And this week, we have Congressman Kevin Hearn from Oklahoma, who also is
0:45.3	chair of the House Republican Policy Committee and a member of the House Ways and Means Committee.
0:51.7	Welcome, Congressman. Who were you rooting for in the Super Bowl? Did you have a
0:55.0	good Sunday or a bad Sunday? It was a bad Sunday. Oh, I'm sorry. I had a good Sunday, so we won't let
1:02.8	that get in the way of our conversation, though. We are really thrilled to have you here because we
1:07.9	want to spend this episode talking about the business of the House, the to-do list.
1:13.4	A lot of the attention so far has been on Donald Trump and his executive actions, nominations
1:19.2	and confirmations in the Senate. But the reality is that an enormous aspect of Donald Trump's
1:25.6	agenda is going to stand or fall in the House of Representatives,
1:29.6	which also happens to have a historically small margin, the majority does.
1:35.0	And so this is going to be a big moment here.
1:37.8	And obviously what everyone's talking about at the moment is budget reconciliation.
1:43.1	I know that there was a thought that last week there might be a
1:46.7	markup that didn't happen. There was a big meeting in the White House. Now you're back and talking
1:52.0	about new numbers yet again. Where do things stand? Well, we just got noticed a few minutes ago that
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