Congressman Bill Huizenga spent some of the week on Mackinac Island taking part in the annual Mackinac Policy Conference. He tells us Thursday featured a spirited discussion with Congresswoman Debbie Dingell about the Big, Beatiful Bill, the massive spending package that slashes funding for Medicaid and other programs while preserving President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.
Huizenga says it’s essential to keep those tax cuts, and to do it, something had to be affected. He says there’s a lot of waste in Medicaid, including abled bodied people who refuse to work. He says that’s not all.
“We’ve got millions of people who are here undocumented without documentation came here illegally to who are also drawing on the systems, and what that’s doing is that is taking money away from those folks who are disabled, who do have dependence, who cannot work, and that to me just doesn’t seem fair to our citizens,” Huizenga said.
Huizenga says the U.S. is facing $36 trillion in debt that needs to be reduced. So, if Republicans want to reduce the debt, why are they slashing government revenues in the form of taxes?
“What that does is that gets more people at work it creates more payroll taxes, we know. With a healthier economy, that means we’re going to be able to lower interest rates and all the way around, this is going to be a positive.”
Huizenga says the Big, Beautiful Bill prevents the largest tax increase in history while reducing taxes for Americans making $30,000 to $80,000 by 15%. He says it also eliminates taxes on tips and overtime.
The bill is now in the U.S. Senate, where it’s future is less certain than it was in the House.
