Arrington and Pfluger: Senate Must Preserve House Version of Most Consequential Bill of Our Lifetime

WASHINGTON D.C. – In a special edition episode of the Right to the Point Podcast, Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Pfluger and House Budget Committee Chairman Arrington break down the One Big Beautiful Bill and make clear that the Senate should send back a product that closely aligns to the bill passed by the House. As the Senate continues to debate the legislation, the two West Texas conservatives use this week's podcast to remind the Senate how important it is to preserve the House policies that reduce wasteful spending, secure the border, and restore integrity to federal welfare programs.

With zero margin for error in the House, they explain how they threaded the needle on the most consequential legislation of their lifetime–delivering historic tax cuts, unprecedented border security investments, and welfare reforms while actually reducing the deficit.

Highlights of the conversation can be found below and the full interview can be found on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Rumble, and YouTube.

ON HOW OBBB WILL DELIVER FOR WEST TEXANS:
Chairman Pfluger: "That's how we grew up out in West Texas. Pretty cool to see two West Texas kids coming up to Washington to just take pretty simple values and put it back into government."

Chairman Arrington: "It's the values that make West Texas great. It's the values that made America great. It's returning to those first principles and those core values are reflected in this bill in so many ways."

Chairman Arrington: "That small business deduction that we enhanced is huge for them, capital expensing made permanent so they can buy tractors and immediately expense them and have the equipment to be more efficient. It will be huge to them, tractors are not cheap...And look, a lot of the agriculture and energy is intertwined in our region, as you know, and opening up domestic assets and energy production in unprecedented ways through this bill, permitting reform through onshore and offshore public land use is going to not only remove the regulatory boot off of the necks of our energy producers, but it's going to open up production in ways that are going to bring the cost down for every family and every business."

ON DISPELLING DEMOCRATS' MISINFORMATION ON MEDICAID REFORMS:
Chairman Arrington: "I mean it's just the worst false narratives. They're using this Congressional Budget Office number of 7.8 million people that CBO says will no longer be on the Medicaid rolls or lose health coverage. But what they don't tell you is, Who are these people and why these are folks who broke the laws?"

Chairman Pfluger: "Well, let me just show you who these people are. 1.4 million are illegal immigrants. 1.3 million are already ineligible, but were kept on because of Biden's misuse of the program. 1.6 million already have access to other subsidized healthcare plans, and 2 million are going to be impacted not by federal decisions, but by state decisions. So, these lies...Bernie Sanders might as well go into, actually, all Democrats might as well just go to their constituency and say, I don't want you to work. I want you to stay home. Yes, I want you to stay home, and I'm going to provide you whatever the subsidies and checks are to stay home because I don't want you to work."

ON REFORMING MEDICAID THROUGH OBBB:
Chairman Arrington: "It's restoring integrity to a program that was designed for the most vulnerable. It's going to restore the dignity of work in this country."

ON HOW CRITICAL OBBB IS:
Chairman Arrington: "It's the most consequential bill in our lifetime. It is the principal legislative vehicle to advance the America First agenda."

ON THE RAZOR-THIN MARGIN REPUBLICANS HAD IN THE HOUSE TO UNLOCK RECONCILIATION:
Chairman Arrington: "We had a one vote margin to kick off this process...threading that needle where you could only lose one vote was no joke."

ON ADDRESSING THE NATIONAL DEBT:
Chairman Pfluger: "The national debt is an issue of national security."

ON FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY: 
Chairman Arrington: "We're going to do this in a fiscally responsible way. We're not going to add to the deficit, and in fact, we're going to bring the indebtedness down."

ON THE WINS THAT WILL COME FROM GETTING THE OBBB TO THE PRESIDENT'S DESK:
Chairman Pfluger: "$7,000 to $9,000 per year per family of four. That's what we are going to put into the American families' pockets."

Chairman Pfluger: "$150 billion of additional money that's going right to the Defense Department to provide for weapon systems, to help those Airmen and soldiers, also $80 billion to our customs and border protection, to CBP, to the homeland defense...An unbelievable part of this bill as well."

ON EXTENDING TCJA:
Chairman Pfluger: "When you're walking through the grocery store, when you're out talking to cotton farmers... they don't want to see a 22% tax increase that would be a mortal blow for them."