(From Eighth District Congressman Jason Smith)One year ago, President Trump returned to office with a clear promise: make life more affordable for hardworking Americans and restore strength to our economy. During his State of the Union address, President Trump shared how those promises have turned into results, and families across southeast Missouri are feeling the difference.
During his speech, we saw Washington Democrats routinely refuse to stand for some of the most commonsense proposals he could offer, like requiring an ID to vote. Despite this disappointing display of partisanship, President Trump outlined a bold agenda to help working families and reaffirmed his commitment building on the success of this past year.
After four years of rising prices and shrinking paychecks under Joe Biden, wages have now increased more in one year under President Trump than they did during the entire Biden presidency. Inflation and gas prices have both fallen to their lowest levels in five years. This is real relief Americans are seeing at the grocery store, the gas pump, and in monthly household budgets, and the President rightly took credit for these results in his speech. Families in rural Missouri who were stretched thin by an economy working against them can finally have some breathing room once again.
A major reason for this turnaround is the Working Families Tax Cuts, which I authored. We enhanced the standard deduction, expanded the Child Tax Credit, and created Trump Accounts to help families build security for the future. Policies like no tax on tips and no tax on Social Security ensure workers and seniors keep more of what they earned, and no tax on overtime will surely be felt by the 24% of Missouri employees who regularly work more than 40 hours a week. We backed growth and investment led by small businesses and the private sector — not more spending by Washington bureaucrats.
As the President mentioned, we are also confronting one of the biggest affordability challenges facing families: health care costs. Already, we have helped deliver more access and lower costs. As part of the Working Families Tax Cuts, the Rural Health Transformation Program granted $216 million to Missouri to protect and strengthen access in rural and underserved communities. We also expanded access to Health Savings Accounts, allowing countless Missourians to use tax-free dollars for medical care. On top of that, we increased transparency in how pharmacy benefit middlemen operate and closed loopholes that allowed illegal immigrants to access taxpayer-funded benefits, protecting both patients and taxpayers. And the President talked about a key priority that we will be working on this year: holding health insurers accountable with transparent metrics for patients.
Beyond affordability at home, I was glad to see the President take credit for his America First trade policy, which has restored fairness for American farmers, workers, and small businesses. For years, other nations were allowed to exploit our producers through unfair and predatory trade practices. That era is over. Our trade deficit has plummeted, trading partners are eliminating barriers to American goods, and they are committing to trillions of dollars in new investment here at home. For Missouri farmers and manufacturers, that means new export opportunities and a more level playing field. It means our producers can compete — and win — without being undercut by foreign governments.
The American people demanded change, and in just one year, President Trump has delivered real results. Wages are rising, inflation is falling, families are keeping more of what they earn, and our farmers and businesses are competing on fair terms. I was excited to hear the President talk not only about the accomplishments we’ve delivered for working families, farmers, and small businesses, but also about the work ahead. The direction is clear, and I will continue working alongside President Trump to strengthen our economy, protect working families, and ensure our best days are still ahead.
10 comments:
Look, I'm right leaning, some would call far right. I don't have classic TDS symptoms but I do have Trump fatigue at this point.
This comes off very 1984, all the pretending like things are great again! We did it guys! Everything is great! Double plus good!... When it clearly isn't.
Too little too late man.
You didn't have to shut down the country for a corona virus. The science was already in when it comes to the virus, they've already done face mask experiments with corona viruses decades ago, we didn't need them. I read about them myself on the CDC website. Remember when doctors never wore them for cold and flu viruses them before 2020? That's because they didn't work. 6' distance rule was completely made up as well. Any semi intelligent person figured this out within the first couple of weeks.
You pushed the rushed experimental gene therapy injections, touted it as one of your greatest accomplishments. Operation warp speed! It takes 10 years to properly develop vaccines, this was in the works for years and they've just been waiting for the right moment. Red flag number 2.
There's a hundred other points I could make about the "pandemic" but long story short, we could have set a great example to all other nations at the time, kept things moving like we've always done with every corona virus or flu...
And NOT PURPOSELY DESTROYED THE ECONOMY. Every economist that isn't a shill during that time predicted that shutting down the economy like we did would really bite us in the next few years, and look what happened.
Forced small businesses to shut down while keeping walmarts open, because Walmart somehow had a covid barrier unlike your mom and pop shops...
Shipping ruined.
People getting paid to do nothing for months.
Hyperinflation ensues.
You also could have built a border, instead of playing games. The cost to build/finish the border was nothing, NOTHING, compared to the amount of money we spend on foreign nations' defense.
Mr. "Iraq was a big mistake" bringing us into warrant-less wars left and right. All for the benefit of Israel. Hmmm, you don't think there's some kind of connection there?
I often wonder how Qanon and ultra MAGA people view Trump at this point.
Surely at this point people can see that this was all a WWE act...
259 is one warped dude. No wonder the intellectually superior are leaving this country in droves. The right wing takeover is dumbing down America. 259 demonstrates this quite succinctly.
5:14 agree with your post. It’s quite scary
514, 907, I wrote an entire essay about how the right wing (Trump) has screwed things up the last 10 years and your response is that I'm part of the "right wing takeover that is dumbing down America"....
To have such poor reading comprehension, no ability to refute anything I said, and at the same time feel like you're intellectually superior... embarrassing.
Can you at least give me some names of the "intellectually superior" people that are leaving this country? I could use a good laugh.
There are a lot of warped and delusional Magas having true come to jesus moments as they realize they are the ones under the boot and don't matter to the regime.
It really sucks for them when they realize it's their turn to be done unto.
9:21AM, Leftist Libera Democratic Woke, DEI, CRT, Pronoun Shamers - cannot begin to talk about DELUSIONAL - Until they understand Biology and Science, that there are only 2-Sexes and that Girls do not want to share Bathrooms and Locker Rooms with Boys or Compete against them - The Party that doesn't want to abide by the Laws of the United States that believe that Illegal Aliens are Not Breaking the Laws and then want to us Abortion as a Birth Control Method that Kills over approximately 1 million children alone in 2024 and then wants to try and sell this CRAP as they were Raped, Incest or Abused - Which the Truth is less than 1% of all Abortions are for Rape, Incest, or Abuse - So what about the 99% of Women that have Abortions - Let's Talk about the Truth - - - THE TRUTH AND FACTS - - FOR ONCE NOT YOUR CONTINUAL BS!!!
Key Reasons for Abortion (Percentages may total over 100% due to multiple reasons per person):
Financial Reasons: ~40%–73% cite inability to afford a child.
Timing/Life Goals: ~36%–76% cite education, career, or not being ready.
Partner/Relationship Issues: ~31%–48% cite lack of partner support or fear of being a single mother.
Family Limitations: ~29%–40% report having completed their childbearing or needing to focus on existing children.
Health Concerns: ~8%–12% of cases involve physical health concerns or fetal abnormalities.
Rape/Incest: Roughly 0.4%–1% of abortions are reported for these reasons.
Jason needs to tell his voters what he thinks about Operation Epstein's Fury.
Will he wait until gas hits $5.00 a gallon?
2:15 nobody is forcing you to have an abortion, so don’t have one. Worry about yourself and leave other people to do what they need to do in their own lives.
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Jason is a member of the magat goon squad.......always bent over assuming the position for the orange masters pleasure.
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