ICYMI: Republicans in Congress Are Delivering Historic Wins for West Texas
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger and House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington participated in a fireside chat detailing why the historic budget reconciliation bill House Republicans passed is a WIN for West Texas.
The duo went in depth on key provisions of this transformative legislation, ranging from historic tax cuts for working families, safeguarding rural healthcare, and dispelling Democrat myths about Medicaid.
The full conversation can be found HERE and highlights from the event are below:
Chairman Pfluger on Protecting Rural Healthcare:
“By the way, it also protects rural healthcare. It also protects our rural facilities here in West Texas, our community health centers, our hospitals, the clinics, the nurses and the technicians, those that are giving us that healthcare, which is hard to get people in some of these small towns; it's very difficult. You all know that much better than I do. This big, beautiful bill protects those small towns in a way that, while saving money that we never could have gotten to without the leadership of Jodey.”
Chairman Arrington on How Transformational the Reconciliation Law Is:
“It's big because it's the largest tax cuts, spending cuts, generational welfare reform, investment in defense and border security and the list goes on. It's beautiful because of what it's going to do to unleash prosperity in this country."
Chairman Pfluger on Preserving Medicare for Future Generations:
“Nobody has championed rural healthcare better than Jodey Arrington. Nobody has stood up for it as a Texan and as a rural citizen than Jodey. So, the provisions that we put into this bill, and if you're hearing things like, well, 'Medicare has been sabotaged or attacked,' that's false. Medicare wasn't touched."
Chairman Arrington Expresses His Appreciation to Chairman Pfluger:
“Our guy, August Pfluger, fighter pilot from the lower Concho Valley, was elected. I'm in charge of the Budget Committee. I don't know forty, fifty people. He's in charge of the largest conservative caucus in the Republican Congress. I mean, in the House and Senate, like 180 members. I promise you, I wouldn't have been able to do the things that I needed to do at the tip of the spear for this budget procedural tool to lock in all these good policies if it weren't for my wingman, August Pfluger. It's worked out perfectly because you sent us the right guy to represent West Texas.”