Op-Ed
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.
On Sept. 30, 2023, the 2018 Farm Bill that President Donald Trump signed into law during his first administration, officially expired, requiring Congress to subsequently pass a one-year extension of this critical legislation for our farmers, producers, and rural communities.
Understanding the urgent need to reauthorize the Farm Bill and newly entrusted with the House majority, my Republican colleagues on the House Agriculture Committee and I, along with four Democrats, passed a new, five-year Farm Bill on May 23, 2024.
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.
In recent years, high fuel prices have hit Americans hard, forcing families to make tough decisions when filling their fuel tanks. While the Trump administration has taken action to reverse Biden-era anti-energy policies, we cannot afford to leave opportunities to promote domestic energy production and support relief for consumers on the table.
On Jan. 14, the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee held our first hearing of the year on the need to make the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — also known as the Trump tax cuts — permanent.
This tax reduction package, which was one of President Donald Trump’s many legislative victories during his first administration, was a major success for taxpayers, our economy and our country.
Last week, I had the pleasure of welcoming Iowans from Fort Dodge and Webster County to our nation’s capital to discuss opportunities and challenges facing our families, farmers, and businesses. We had an extensive and productive conversation on a wide range of issues from education and agriculture to infrastructure and tax policy.
Every year, April 15 — and March 1 for our producers — marks a dreaded deadline for American families, farmers and small businesses. It’s the day that the federal government extracts as much money as possible from the American people.
Paying taxes is already miserable enough; filing them should not be frustrating, overly complicated and time-consuming. Yet, that remains the case.
Every year, millions of Americans welcome a newborn into the world, care for loved ones who require additional support, or need time to recover from a medical condition themselves. These common, yet challenging, life events often demand more time spent at home, making it difficult to maintain a routine work schedule and, in turn, creating financial uncertainty under already stressful and unpredictable circumstances.
Last year, the Joe Biden administration oversaw the worst rollout of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in recent memory, leaving families and students in the dark for months about financial assistance for higher education.
This preventable setback caused headaches for parents, frustrations for students, and confusion for community colleges and universities.
As of Thursday February 27th, more than 166 million chickens and turkeys in the United States have been affected by High Path Avian Influenza (HPAI), a highly contagious and deadly disease that impacts poultry, cattle, and can even spread to humans. In my home state of Iowa alone, approximately 30 million birds have been infected with this virus since 2022 with more than 12 million being in my home county – Sioux County.