{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2025/6/tillis-op-ed-the-senate-s-one-big-beautiful-opportunity", "Tillis Op-Ed: The Senate\u2019s One Big, Beautiful Opportunity", "2025-06-11", "2025", "2025-06", "Republican", "Senate", "NC", "Thom Tillis", "T000476", "www.tillis.senate.gov", "tillis", "https://www.tillis.senate.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) published an op-ed in The Hill outlining the Senate\u2019s one big, beautiful opportunity to deliver tax relief and pass President Trump\u2019s agenda.\n\nRead the full op-ed HERE.\n\nSenator Tillis on Delivering President Trump\u2019s Campaign Promises:\n\n\u201cPresident Trump ran \u2014 and won \u2014 on a bold promise: supercharge America\u2019s economy and restore strength at home and abroad. Now the Senate is on the verge of helping him fulfill that commitment with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Getting the bill through the House was a Herculean effort in itself, given the Republicans\u2019 thin majority. That required many compromises to be made. While there is a lot of good in the House version of the bill, some big improvements still need to be made. That is what the Senate is currently working on.\u201d\n\nSenator Tillis on Democrats Opposition to the One Big, Beautiful Bill:\n\n\u201cDon\u2019t buy the spin of Democrats who oppose this bill and falsely give the impression that it\u2019s just tax cuts for billionaires. Instead, look at the numbers. By voting against this bill, Democrats are voting to double the federal taxes on every married couple with two kids making $80,000 a year, from roughly $1,400 in taxes owed to more than $3,000. By voting against this bill, Democrats are voting to force single parents with two kids making $40,000 a year to go from getting a net tax credit to owing nearly $1,500 in taxes. By voting against this bill, Democrats are also betraying tens of millions of small businesses. They\u2019ll be voting to triple the income tax bill for married small business owners with three kids and a net income of $180,000. They will also be voting against the most ambitious welfare reform in a generation.\u201d\n\nSenator Tillis on Improvements to the One, Big Beautiful Bill:\n\n\u201cDespite a lot of good, there are some big areas in need of improvement. First, the Senate needs to find additional spending cuts and savings. While the House version saves taxpayers $1.6 trillion in spending, we need to push further for fiscal restraint. This will be easier said than done, as the reconciliation process that allows Congress to pass major tax legislation with a simple majority vote has major restrictions on what and where the Senate can cut. A prime target is the House\u2019s inexplicable decision to quadruple the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, which wealthy taxpayers in high-tax blue states utilize. While I understand why lawmakers from California and New York want to increase the SALT deduction, it\u2019s not the responsibility of federal taxpayers to subsidize state tax bills. The SALT increase overwhelmingly benefits the wealthiest of taxpayers and carries a significant price tag of $320 billion. The Senate needs to fix this and unlock additional cost savings to help working families, not coastal elites.\u201d\n\nSenator Tillis on the Senate\u2019s Work Moving Forward:\n\n\u201cMoving forward, each Republican senator will have input, and each provision should be scrutinized. My simple request to all my Republican colleagues in both chambers is: do not let the perfect become the enemy of the good. We have narrow majorities in both the House and Senate and cannot waste the historic opportunity we have to deliver tax relief and pass Trump\u2019s agenda. Whether it takes the next few weeks or the next few months, let\u2019s do the hard work to find common ground, get the job done, and put the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on Trump\u2019s desk.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T01:08:28Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2025/6/tillis-op-ed-the-senate-s-one-big-beautiful-opportunity"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6461270861327648, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}