Senator Eric Schmitt
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478 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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And think of the House as a hot cup of coffee and it's spilling over. The job of the Senate is to take that bill and make it better. I think for us over here, what I'm looking at is where can we save some more taxpayers' dollars? Where are the opportunities to cut some spending? What do we do with those SALT taxes? So I think that's the big thrust over us here. How can we make this bill better?
How can we deliver on President Trump's promises, no tax on TIFFs, overtime, Social Security, make the Trump tax cuts permanent? This bill has the potential to save an American family $1,000 a month. So that's how important this bill is.
Right. So in these big blue states, they have high taxes and they're able to deduct that from their federal taxes. So this what the House has done will still cost to cost American taxpayers three hundred billion dollars over the next 10 years. So they're going to let people from these blue states write off up to thirty thousand dollars of their taxes, which will decrease revenue to the state.
So this feels like people from Kansas are subsidizing a hundred percent.
Please keep going. It is that simple to the tune of $300 billion over 10 years. So what else could we do with that $300 billion? We could deliver the president's Golden Dome. That would be one simple thing and more. We would take that money and make Medicaid and Medicare even better. There's just better ways to spend that money.
We can use it to secure the border, to help our military out, to give our troops more wages, all those types. It's real money, $300 billion.
So it's at $10,000 now, as I recall. So STAL stands for state and local taxes. So if your state and local taxes are high, the more motivated you are to try to write those off. You know, most Kansas wouldn't have $10,000 of state and local taxes to write off. But to answer your question, so the House passed a bill. We could pass their bill exactly as it is. And it's a good bill.
It's probably got 80, 90 percent of what I'd like to see in it. But if the Senate makes any major changes, it'll have to go back to the House a second time. And that's where the tricky part is, Charlie. As much as you and I want to face this federal budget, we also got to pass it, and we don't want to lose the House. So there's a dozen House members, and I'm making that number up.
I'm not sure how many House members are that are really, really from these purple districts with high property taxes that this – You know, they may not get reelected. They may not get reelected anyway. But I can sure tell you for damn sure, I can tell you that if we don't get some type of a good, big, beautiful bill out of here, none of us should get reelected.
Right. So what we did with Social Security, since since by the law, we cannot touch Social Security. But what we did is we're giving seniors a four thousand dollar tax credit in addition. So so it essentially we're not going to tax their tips, tax their Social Security, but doing it in a different way. We increase the child tax credit. Look at that.
Republicans doubled the tax credit in 2017 with this bill, and now we increased it another $500. So we increased the tax deduction for having children to $2,500 as well. That would be another answer. A little Second Amendment we've slipped in there. There are some rules and regulations around what I would call a silencer, a muffler on guns, that type of thing.
So there are a whole lot of low-hanging fruit in here. The Golden Dome is in here, President Trump's Golden Dome, the first down payment on some type of satellite system to help intercept missiles. nuclear warheads, that type of thing. Huge pay raises for our troops, for the border patrol officers, funding to help get those illegal aliens out of this country.
We have 400,000 violent criminal aliens in this country. It is way more expensive, Charlie. It may cost $100,000 per person to escort them out of this country. Thank you, Joe Biden. And we'll take care of that for four years. We don't have to go back to the Democrats every year and say, hey, we want money for the border. We want money for the military.
So we have significant money in here to take care of the military, for the most part, for four years, and the president's border security and the removal of illegal aliens.
Oh, my gosh. So I assume that we're losing Susan Collins' vote no matter what. So we still have to 50. I think we'll lose her on Medicaid, a few other. And I respect her. She is representing a Democrat state. I get it.
But nobody else has an excuse. I agree. Yes. Nobody else has a damn excuse. And they need to get in here and play the game. And if you get 90% of what you want, we better pass this bill and move on. And I'm sick about where our federal deficit is now. We could come back and do five shows on that.
We spent an hour yesterday as a Republican caucus talking about the national debt and what's going on with selling our treasuries, that type of thing as well. But I do think we get there. My message to my pro-life people is this. You know, we did what we wanted to do. We sent most of the issues back to the state. And now the states need to do their job as well.
But we're still losing a million babies every year, a million. Most of them are from this abortion pill. And we're trying to do some things there to curve the edges around it. They're able to just call up and basically mail order this pill without having any idea how far along the patient is. So I'm working on that up here.
But Planned Parenthood is the number one source of not just the abortions, but this abortion pill as well. So we'll defund them. And this is probably the second biggest day for the pro-life group after the Dobbs decision, I think, if we get this across the finish line.
Look, I think number one, when I think about make America healthy, great again, healthy again is 60% of Americans have a chronic disease of some sort. Most of it is nutritionally related or related to toxins. So I expect this Maha report to talk about the importance of soil health.
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