The One Big Beautiful Bill Act

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a Win for Southern Minnesota

The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, historic legislation that unleashes economic growth for southern Minnesota families, farmers, and small businesses. I was proud to give my strong support for this once-in-a-generation legislation that secures $1.2 trillion in savings for American taxpayers and delivers the real, long-term reform that Americans voted for.

Since my first day in Congress, I have worked to support policies that grow our economy, let hardworking families keep more of their paychecks, and rein in Washington’s out-of-control spending. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act does exactly that.

Here’s a look at just some of the ways this bill delivers real results for Minnesota’s First Congressional District:

Tax Relief for Southern Minnesota Families
Saves the typical American family $1,700 in taxes

  • Makes many of the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent – saving southern Minnesota families from a 24% tax hike.
  • Delivers on President Trump’s priorities of no tax on tips and overtime pay.
  • Provides additional tax relief for seniors, boosting their standard deduction to $6,000.
  • Ends Biden-era tax breaks and special interest giveaways to the wealthy, big corporations, and China.

Security for Southern Minnesota Farmers
Strengthens critical risk management tools that farmers depend on

  • Makes the Death Tax exemption permanent and raises the exemption to $15 million, helping farmers and small businesses in MN-01 pass their operations down to the next generation.
  • Enhances crop insurance, including provisions from my legislation, the FARMER Act, to expand access and reduce costs for producers.
  • Strengthens safety net programs like ARC and PLC.
  • Increases investments in foreign animal disease prevention and response.
  • Invests additional funding in trade promotion programs to keep U.S. agriculture competitive.
  • Provides historic support for voluntary, farmer-friendly conservation programs.

Investing in Our National Defense
Makes America more secure with Peace through Strength

  • Increases servicemember allowances and special pay through improvements to housing, healthcare, and military family assistance.
  • Provides funding for President Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense shield.
  • Revitalizes our defense industrial base and invests in our naval fleet.
  • Deters Chinese Communist Party aggression by expanding military exercises and improving readiness in the Indo-Pacific.

Securing Our Border
Ends the border crisis and restores immigration enforcement

  • Funds the largest deportation effort in history, providing funding for the removal of criminal illegal immigrants.
  • Provides immigration enforcement agencies – ICE, CBP, USCIS, and EOIR – with critical funding and resources to enforce current immigration laws.
  • Funds the completion of the border wall and enforces the “Remain in Mexico” policy.
  • Shifts the cost of adjudication in the immigration system from the American taxpayer to immigrants.

Empowering Southern Minnesota Small Businesses
Removes government red tape, making it easier for small businesses to thrive

  • Makes the 199A small business deduction permanent, supporting the cooperative system, creating over one million new Main Street small business jobs, and generating hundreds of billions of dollars in economic growth.
  • Increases the 1099-MISC threshold for small businesses, reducing paperwork and burdens on business owners.
  • Extends Section 168(k) allowing the full and immediate expensing of qualifying business expenses.
  • Establishes a Rural Qualified Opportunity Fund to expand opportunity zones and invest in rural communities.
  • Doubles the small business expensing limit to $2.5 million, allowing Minnesota small businesses to invest in their operations.

Unleashing American Energy Dominance
Creates jobs and lowers energy costs for families

  • Halts Green New Deal spending and funding for “climate justice” projects.
  • Strengthens U.S. energy security by supporting the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
  • Saves American taxpayers money by rescinding billions of dollars in wasteful funds from the Biden Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) slush funds.
  • Modernizes the Department of Energy’s (DOE) scientific data and systems to make them AI-ready.
  • Resumes leasing for energy production in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Reining in Waste and Reducing the Deficit
Delivers the largest deficit reduction in nearly 30 years

  • Strengthens Medicaid for the traditional population that the program was intended for: children, pregnant women, and individuals with disabilities.
  • Creates the Rural Transformation Fund, a $50 billion fund for state investments in rural health, and provides additional support to rural health providers.
  • Defunds Big Abortion providers and redirects funds to community-based, qualified healthcare providers that support both mothers and children.
  • Encourages pathways to financial independence for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid beneficiaries by strengthening work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents.
  • Restores SNAP program integrity by curbing waiver abuse and requiring states to have skin in the game for the first time through a cost-share tied to error rates.
  • Restores Congressional oversight over the Thrifty Food Plan to prevent unchecked spending increases by federal agencies.