The One Big, Beautiful Bill
By Rep. Dusty Johnson
May 23, 2025
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I voted to pass the House’s One Big, Beautiful Bill, which is a strong, conservative package that prevents the largest tax hike in American history while saving $1.6 trillion, the largest spending reduction in a generation.
The bill secures our borders by finishing thousands of miles of walls and barriers and hires thousands more Border Patrol and ICE personnel. It also funds the enforcement of the successful “Remain in Mexico” policy.
By extending the current tax rates, the average South Dakota taxpayer will avoid a 25% tax hike, which would cost a family of four $1,431 more per year. Allowing these tax cuts to expire would also cost South Dakota thousands of jobs. The National Association of Manufacturing estimates 17,000 South Dakotans would lose their jobs and our state’s economic output would decrease by $3.1 billion.
The bill also implements commonsense policies to right-size federal programs. I’ve heard a lot of misinformation about Medicaid and SNAP benefits, and I want to set the record straight: this bill does not change benefits for seniors, pregnant women, those with disabilities, or those with children at home. The bill ensures illegal immigrants do not receive Medicaid and SNAP benefits, ensuring we take care of the neediest Americans first.
Additionally, the bill ends taxes on tips and overtime, decreases taxes on Social Security, defunds Planned Parenthood, and prohibits taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries.
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Buying a home in Indian Country is a challenge due to complicated bureaucracy in the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). The BIA delays have hindered many tribal citizens’ dreams of homeownership. I’ve partnered with Senator John Thune on the Tribal Trust Land Homeownership Act to streamline the approval process for mortgages on tribal trust land.
This week, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian Affairs held a hearing this week on our bill. I had the opportunity to introduce Eric Shepherd, Executive Director of the Sisseton Wahpeton Housing Authority.
Click here or the image above for Johnson’s opening statement
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Memorial Day is a time to reflect on the sacrifices our service members have made for our country. I got to greet another Honor Flight at the World War II memorial this week. More than 80 veterans, including two WWII veterans, were on this trip. I had the opportunity to thank them for their service.
Johnson greets Honor Flight veterans at the World War II Memorial
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The “Big Beautiful Bill” is a pig in lipstick. It does jack to actually solve the debt crisis, and just pours fuel on the fire.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5316940-trump-bill-fiscal-concerns-republicans/
Dusty, if the bill you’re bragging about is so conservative, why did it include a $5T increase in the debt limit? No matter how much you want to mislead Sourh Dakotans, the bill does cut Medicaid and SNAP plus it is written in such a way to make it exceedingly more difficult to stay on both programs due to more onerous paperwork requirements. I would also like to know why the provision was included that allows the federal government to simply ignore judicial injunctions by removing the ability to hold officials in contempt of court.
It shows you how far we’ve fallen that policy nerd Dusty Johnson is touting “one big beautiful bill” knowing full well what it is and is not. Holding his nose like the rest of us I suppose. Of course he’s trying to be governor. Most of us just like that he’s mean to people we don’t like and it excuses us our predilections heretofore unspeakable.
Bill is more like a “Big, beautiful chunk of feces.” Republicans are in so much more trouble if they pass this. So. Much. Trouble.