In 2023 he was one of 71 Republicans who voted against the bipartisan debt deal for not cutting enough. In 2025 he voted for the biggest deficit increase in years. In July 2026 he introduced the Super Pay-As-You-Go Act.
Paxton's 'Protecting the Texas Promise' agenda is a stack of new tax deductions. You have to itemize your taxes to claim the deductions — and only about 10% of taxpayers do. Even conservative economists say it will push prices up, not down.
Comer's D.C. Taxing Authority Review Act would require an act of Congress before the District could change any tax or fee — up or down. He told the markup it was aimed at the progressives D.C. voters had just elected. An $81 billion delivery company that had just lost a 20-cent fee fight wrote in to back it, and Comer put its letter in the record.
The state's own economists put a number on what Amendment 3 would take from Florida's cities and counties. Donalds, the amendment's loudest champion, is now attacking the estimators — without offering a number of his own.
Arkansas's self-appointed debt hawk wants a commission to bring deficits down to 3% of GDP. His own press release celebrating the bill that added $3.4 trillion runs about five hundred words and never mentions the deficit once.
The Senate came back with a bill that added about $1 trillion more to the deficit than the House version Burchett had reluctantly voted for. He went to the White House, got a signed souvenir, and voted for it the next day.
A November ballot measure would charge California's 200-plus billionaires a one-time 5% tax to backfill federal health care cuts. Kiley drafted federal legislation to block it after reports that Zuckerberg and Google's founders might leave.
The Speaker of the House headlined a Harding campaign breakfast built around one small, temporary tax break from Trump's budget bill. The same bill could cost Nebraska up to $4 billion in Medicaid, and 18,000 fewer Nebraskans are getting food assistance than a year earlier.
Idaho cut most state agencies 4% this year and 5% next year, partly to absorb a $155 million hole created by matching Trump's federal tax cuts. In July, Brad Little pointed at the $250 million left over and said he won't be putting any of it back.