Johnson Secures Tax Relief, Border Security, and Historic Spending Reduction
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) voted to pass the conservative reconciliation package, the One Big, Beautiful Bill, to protect families, small businesses, and communities across America from the largest tax increase in American history. The bill now heads to President Trump’s desk for his signature.
“After struggling with the burden of inflation for the last four years, families and businesses are desperate for tax relief, and this bill has it,” said Johnson. “Our state is counting on the provisions in this bill for extension of current tax rates to see our businesses and communities grow and thrive. This bill is pro-family, pro-small business, pro-energy, and pro-America. I’m proud to send it to President Trump’s desk.”
The three most important parts of the package:
- Avoids a historic tax hike for most Americans and businesses.
- The bill includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and provides $6,000 of tax relief for seniors.
- Without extending current tax rates, the average taxpayer in South Dakota would see a 25% tax hike.
- Without extending current tax rates, an average South Dakota family would see a tax increase of $2,500.
- Without extending current tax rates, 101,690 South Dakota families would see their household’s Child Tax Credit cut in half.
- Without extending current tax rates, 94% of South Dakota taxpayers would see their guaranteed deduction slashed in half.
- Without extending current tax rates, 88,730 South Dakota small businesses would see their tax rates surge to 40 percent.
- Without extending current tax rates, the National Association of Manufacturers expects South Dakota would lose 17,000 jobs, $1.5 billion lost wages, and $3.1 billion lost economic output.
- Secures our borders.
- It will complete 701 miles of primary walls, 900 miles of river barriers, 629 miles of secondary barriers, replace 141 miles of vehicle and pedestrian barriers, and strengthen border surveillance technology.
- It funds “Remain in Mexico” enforcement and at least one million annual removals of illegal aliens, ensuring immigrants come to the U.S. the right way.
- Hires thousands of Border Patrol and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel to carry out the mission.
- Implements commonsense policies to right-size federal programs and decrease spending.
- It saves $1.6 trillion over 10 years, the largest spending reduction in a generation.
- It changes Medicaid eligibility for certain non-citizen alien groups, protecting the program for the neediest Americans.
- It removes SNAP eligibility for illegal immigrants, ensuring Americans who need assistance the most receive it.
- It removes certain non-eligible aliens from receiving Medicare benefits.
- It enforces work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents under the age of 14 who receive SNAP or Medicaid benefits, helping to lift them out of poverty. These work requirements will not affect vulnerable populations like pregnant women, seniors, those with disabilities, or those with young children at home.
Notable Johnson priorities included:
- Incorporates Johnson’s bill, the America Works Act of 2025, by strengthening work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents receiving SNAP.
- Unleashes domestic mining of critical minerals, decreasing reliance on China.
- Provides $4.5 billion for the B-21 at the Ellsworth Air Force Base.
- Increases support for farmers facing higher costs for fuel, feed, and fertilizer due to record inflation.
- Makes long-term investments in conservation efforts that protect working lands without tying producers’ hands.
- Increases funding for trade programs so American-grown products reach more global markets.
- Prevents implementation of harmful Biden-era staffing standards for long-term care facilities.
- Prevents facilities that conduct abortions, like Planned Parenthood, from receiving federal Medicaid payments.
- Provides $50 billion investment in rural health care.
- Boosts defenses against foreign animal diseases that threaten our livestock and poultry industries, like New World Screwworm, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, and African Swine Fever.
- Provides historic funding for the Air Traffic Control system, which is overdue for updates.
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Dusty traded massive cuts in Medicaid and SNAP for a huge tax cut for the mega-wealthy and boasts of all he has helped to accomplish. Why exactly did the mega-wealthy need a tax cut anyway especially at the expense of the neediest South Dakotans? I have not read or heard of his reasons. All the other things he brags of are paid for by deficit spending adding the the already out-of-control national debt.
Ya, all those billionaires don’t need tax free tips or overtime! Make them pay!
Why all the hate for video gamers too? We chose our career path, how dare the government take our health care.
What a bunch of stupid straw men arguments.
Nobody lost Medicaid except those that shouldn’t have it.
Source: you just made it up
it’s been reported that illegal immigrants are on Medicaid..
Under Medicaid expansion, able-bodied adults were able to drop their employer-provided coverage and sign up for Medicaid.
Medicaid is for people who are unable to work because of age (too young or too old) or disability.
It never should have been expanded to cover people who are perfectly capable of earning a living.
Dusty Johnson’s latest move is nothing less than a betrayal of South Dakota families, cloaked in the guise of the notorious Texas Two-Step. Rather than confronting the crippling national debt, he has chosen to line the pockets of the wealthiest among us, decimating the financial security of future generations in the process. It’s outrageous that in his quest to appease his wealthy allies, he has mercilessly slashed social safety nets, leaving the most vulnerable—those without insurance—to fend for themselves.
And let’s be clear: this charade isn’t just a political calculation; it’s a calculated cover-up. Johnson is intentionally delaying the implementation of these devastating cuts until after the next election, hoping to keep South Dakotans in the dark about the full extent of his damaging agenda. If these cuts to Medicaid, environmental protections, and agricultural support are as innocuous as he claims, why hide their impact from voters?
This is a calculated deception designed to mislead the electorate at the ballot box. It’s time we demand accountability and refuse to allow our futures to be sacrificed for the benefit of a privileged few. We need leaders who will fight for all South Dakotans — those struggling to get by, those without healthcare, and those who care about our environment—not just those who can afford to donate to their campaigns. The people of South Dakota deserve better, and it’s time to make our voices heard!
Once again, MAGA has pulled the wool over our eyes, spinning a web of deception that leads the nation to believe their empty promises of economic revival will actually come to fruition. Amidst all the fanfare and false urgency, we are on the verge of repeating the catastrophic mistakes of 2017. This latest tax break is nothing but a reckless scheme to dump billions into an economy that has nowhere for this money to go, unleashing a wave of inflation that will devastate everyday Americans.
In the wake of this misguided initiative, the Federal Reserve is left with no choice but to increase interest rates, making it harder for families to obtain loans for homes and essential needs. The consequences are stark and undeniable: a heavier burden on ordinary citizens and a multi-billion-dollar increase in our national debt.
Congratulations, MAGA, on your steadfast refusal to learn from history. Your reckless ideology and shortsighted decisions are poised to harm us all, and the time has come for the American people to rise up and hold you accountable for this ongoing assault on our economic stability and well-being.
And you will be shown to be wrong just like the rest of the chicken little libbies.
The US dollar is down 10% in 6 months. I guess that is great if you are running a crypto scam. How far are you guys going to screw yourselves to supposedly own some libs?
Thank you, Dusty!
Nice try Dusty.
I sure hope Dusty has fun dealing with this as governor.
I know we’ll hear it’s Obama’s fault 100 times. Going to be interesting to see how chicken little spins this catastrophe.
What a disaster! Dusty, when rural hospitals and nursing homes close, it’s on you, Thune and Rounds. Utter betrayal.
Oh, and school vouchers….only you can backdoor yourself….let’s all give Dusty a golf clap! Should be interesting when you become Governor how you explain to the public schools how you boned them. Golf clap for Dusty!
Biggest B kisser in America.
Interesting to read here that all the waiters, hairdressers, parking valets, retirees, and families with young children are counted among the superwealthy.