US Congressman Brecheen talks One Big Beautiful Bill

President Donald Trump’s one big beautiful budget bill has been the focus of the news cycle for several weeks now. 

US Congressman Josh Brecheen from Oklahoma stopped by the Morning NewsWatch to discuss the budget as well as many other things you care about.

Congressman Brecheen is on the Budget Committee and said things such as coming up with funding for the physical barrier border wall, continuing the tax cuts and Jobs Act extension coupled with plussing up mandatory spending in defense are big considerations for the one big beautiful budget bill.

“The one big beautiful bill is going to plus up defense, secure our borders, extend the tax cuts and Jobs Act and provide some things that President Trump on the campaign trail talked about that he saw as a priority,” Congressman Brecheen said. “We’re trying to bundle all that together.”

Of course, the pathway is narrow and might be difficult to get the budget bill passed, considering the need for more than majority votes to get it passed in Congress.

“Here’s a 3,000-foot view,” Congressman Brecheen said. “Everything in Congress almost takes 60 votes in the Senate. Not a majority threshold, but it’s 60 votes. Something to get around what they call the hold or cloture. Reconciliation since 1974 has allowed it to be a 50 vote threshold. It is how the Democrats implemented their green new scam, the Inflation Reduction Act that gave all these tax credit giveaways to solar and battery and wind. And by the way, if they did that through reconciliation, we can undo that. And so that’s another element.

Congressman Brecheen continued to say that China is benefiting in a major way with investment into solar and wind energy from the Democrats.

“There’s a trillion dollars over 10 years we’re going to be giving to the leftist billionaires who are in wind and solar and, and that props up China’s economy,” Congressman Brecheen said. “Super majority of the solar and battery components are coming from China, and we are killing our fossil fuel industry underneath our feet—the liquid gold—and blessing China in this process because of this climate alarmist ideology. So, part of the one big beautiful bill is also that we set it up in the Budget committee to undo that, to take those tax credits that cost every American and utilize that to give them tax relief.”

One area that won’t see a cut in spending is the defense budget. In fact, there may be an increase in order to fund the U.S. version of the Iron Dome in Israel—the Golden Dome.

“What was going to be $100 billion for the plus up on the mandatory on defense is now turned into 150 and they’ve designated 25 billion relative to the Golden Dome,” Congressman Brecheen said. “Some of us want to scrutinize that and make sure that we’re if we’re going to plus that up there has to be a trade off.”

One way to counteract that spending, according to Congressman Brecheen, is to hold the nondefense discretionary budget flat for a four-year period.

“If we can go to a four-year time period, then that actually can help us get back to pre Covid spending levels that the Democrats plussed up after Covid or during the midst of COVID where they increased the spending 30% holistically on the non defense discretionary side of government spending,” said Congressman Brecheen.

“If we can hold the nondefense discretionary budget flat for four years, we can have an agreement on that potentially that helps us pay for the things for the defense side, but that doesn’t mean we’re not going to scrutinize,” Congressman Brecheen added. “I want to make sure that the systems were put into effect. … We’ve got to make sure that we understand that we’re in a new era with the way that we are prepared for fighting China and it’s not always going to be aircraft carriers and battleships. It is going to be things that will be satellite specific and things that, which are much more targeted.”