Trey Gowdy learned of Trump’s secret weapon to destroy big government
Donald Trump campaigned on one major theme from the very beginning.
The President is closer than ever to victory.
And Trey Gowdy learned of Trump’s secret weapon to destroy big government.
The REINS Act will allow Republicans to dismantle the administrative state
Every Republican campaigns for office on a promise to shrink the size and scope of government.
Few actually mean it.
But thanks to President Trump’s “one, big beautiful bill,” the GOP stands on the precipice of passing the key legislation that could put big government on life support.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told Trey Gowdy that the GOP-run House was on track to pass a bill that will extend the 2017 tax cuts, keep President Trump’s promise to add new tax cuts like “no taxes on tips,” fund mass deportations, kick start the American energy industry, and deregulate the economy.
“Good news: over the last week, 7 of our 11 committees of jurisdiction got their pieces of the Big Beautiful Bill done. We have 4 committees yet to go, and then we push it through the Budget Committee to merge it all together and send it to the Senate,” Johnson declared.
Johnson argued this bill was the difference between Trump’s promised “Golden Age” and a recession caused by the economic headwinds Joe Biden and Kamala Harris created.
“We will get this job done. The stakes are too high. The possibility of failure is one that nobody wants to face… at the end of the day, we’ll get everybody together,” Johnson continued.
And most importantly, Johnson told Gowdy that the GOP could pass the “one big, beautiful bill” through the House and the Senate on simple majority votes.
“[We are avoiding] the 60-vote threshold in the Senate,” Johnson added.
🚨 BREAKING: Speaker Mike Johnson says House Republicans are aggressively pursuing codifying Trump’s agenda in the Big Beautiful Bill and have made substantial progress on it.
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Avoiding the filibuster is the key.
Passing the “one big, beautiful bill” along party lines allows the GOP to tuck the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act into the legislation.
The REINS Act is kryptonite to big government.
Under the REINS Act, any regulation that would have an annual impact of $100 million or more on the economy or taxpayers needs approval via a resolution passed by both the House and the Senate.
Members of Congress would have to go on the record once again and approve any regulations that soak the American people with higher taxes and regulatory costs and fees.
Quite simply, it would mean they could no longer play the game – at least on the biggest things – of abdicating their constitutional obligation to vote on the laws of the nation and then pointing the finger at bureaucrats as an excuse to the voters back home as regulations are effectively the same thing.
Of course, they should be voting on everything so they can’t avoid accountability for any of it.
That means having to explain, come election season, why they voted to raise costs on Middle-Class Americans.
Republicans believe the fear of public exposure of politicians who support tax increases and ever-rising regulatory costs would stop oppressive regulations cold.
The REINS Act also allows Congress to repeal large numbers of regulations via blanket resolution instead of the current system, in which Congress must pass regulation repeal resolutions one by one.
Many conservatives believe the REINS Act would be the biggest shake-up to the Washington status quo anyone can recall.
“For those who say it would make a radical change, a radical departure from the status quo of rulemaking, I’d say, ‘Thank heaven above for that,’” Utah Senator Mike Lee posted to X.
