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In 2017, President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) into law, cutting taxes for hardworking families, encouraging investment in farms and businesses, and unleashing economic growth and prosperity. These historic tax cuts allowed millions of American workers to keep more of their hard-earned money, freed up cash for small businesses to expand and hire new employees, helped farmers finance equipment purchases, and lowered the financial costs of raising children through a stronger child tax credit and the creation of a new Paid Family and Medical Leave Tax Credit.
HULL, IOWA – Earlier this month, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) helped introduce – alongside Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) – the Neighborhood Homes Investment Act, which would mobilize private investment to construct new, affordable homes and revitalize existing homes to attract and keep families and businesses in Iowa.
This legislation would support the construction or rehabilitation of roughly 500,000 homes for middle- and low-income families.
HULL, IOWA – This Congress, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) helped introduce, alongside U.S. Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), the Permanent Tax Cuts for American Families Act, which would make the enhanced standard deduction – first established by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 – permanent.
This enhanced deduction is set to expire at the end of 2025 absent congressional action.
In 2017, during his first term, President Donald Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a historic economic achievement and long-overdue reform of the U.S. tax code. The TCJA — also known as the Trump Tax Cuts — had numerous benefits, with families, farmers, workers, and businesses receiving much-needed tax relief.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Reps. Randy Feenstra (R-IA) and Darin LaHood (R-IL) – alongside more than 100 original cosponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives – introduced the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act, which would support the financing and development of affordable housing in rural communities and nationwide.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) introduced the Secure Family Futures Act to apply ordinary treatment of debt investments for insurance companies, which in turn, would help secure life insurance policies – at a lower cost – for American families.
U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL) is an original cosponsor.
Meeting with Iowans, listening to their ideas, and talking about policy proposals that can benefit our families, farmers, businesses, and manufacturers is a top priority for me. It’s why I travel to all 36 counties in the 4th Congressional District at least twice each year as part of my biannual 36 County Tour. Accountability and transparency are foundational to our representative system of government.
Every year, I travel to every county in Iowa’s 4th Congressional District at least twice a year as part of my biannual 36 County Tour. My travels across the district meeting with Iowans allow me to take their policy suggestions to Congress, turning ideas into legislation. To date, I have made more than 330 different stops, which includes many trips to Dickinson County.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) issued the following statement after the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) announced that it would pause removal of 36 Aids to Navigation (ATONs) on the Missouri River north of Blencoe, Iowa:
HULL, IOWA — Last week, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) cosponsored the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act — led by U.S. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) — which would prevent the Federal Reserve from authorizing the creation of a central bank digital currency or digital dollar.