House Republicans are promoting their accomplishments this year, from stopping massive tax hikes to extra spending on border security, a record they will be running on in next year’s midterm elections.
It’s a record of wins, as House Speaker Mike Johnson notes, that they scored with a slim GOP majority in the House.
Mr. Johnson’s office recently circulated a fact sheet that said House Republicans and President Trump “advanced the most aggressive Republican agenda in recent memory, despite one of the narrowest House majorities in modern history.”
“The unified Republican agenda focused on putting money back in the pockets of American families and putting America first, through lower taxes, border security, unleashing American energy, permitting reform, national defense, appropriations, and government efficiency,” it said.
The House passed 441 bills, codified 70 of Mr. Trump’s executive orders and adopted 23 Congressional Review Act resolutions, with 16 signed into law, according to Mr. Johnson’s office. Some $9 billion was also rescinded through the Rescissions Act of 2025.
Republicans touted the passage of Mr. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which stopped the largest tax hike in U.S. history, while expanding tax breaks to include no federal taxes on tips, overtime pay and some Social Security retirement benefits.
They increased funding for border security and continued funding for border wall construction.
House Democrats will likely be running on their opposition to Mr. Trump’s massive tax cut and spending law. They call it the “big ugly bill” and insist it doesn’t help America’s middle class.
“This bill isn’t for the American people — it’s a reward to the mega-rich campaign donors that bankroll Republican campaigns,” House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar said before the bill was passed in July.
House Republicans also passed public safety bills such as the Laken Riley Act, which requires the detention of non-citizens without bail when certain crimes are committed, the HALT Fentanyl Act, which permanently classifies fentanyl as the most-restricted Schedule I drug, and the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which protects minors against deepfakes online.
House lawmakers also passed the SAVE Act to require identification for federal voter registration, and the SUPPORT Act to renew federal funding for opioid addiction support and treatment.
House Republicans also tackled the health care affordability as extra Obamacare subsidies are set to expire Dec. 31. A House-passed GOP bill included provisions to give people more options when shopping for health insurance.
The president has said he wants money to go to Americans directly, not to insurance companies, so consumers can buy their own health care. The bill, called the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act, is estimated to save taxpayers nearly $36 billion over the next 10 years and reduce gross premiums by 11%.
Republicans have maintained that their focus is on cutting costs and getting rid of wasteful spending, but Democrats have been homing in on ‘affordability’ and how the end of Obamacare subsidies will hurt many Americans.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, New York Democrat, predicted that the tax credits will be extended in the new year with help from Republicans.
“We’re going to keep the pressure on,” Mr. Jeffries said on Tavis Smiley’s podcast. “We are going to successfully get this bill out of the House. It will have bipartisan support, and that will increase the pressure on the Senate, and then retroactively, we’ll have to deal with, perhaps, reopening the open enrollment period so we can restore the health insurance to people and make it more affordable, having gotten the tax credits restored.”
“These people have tried to repeal it now more than 70 different times over the last 15 years, and the American people have only grown in their affection, in terms of the support for the Affordable Care Act, because it impacts everyone,” Mr. Jeffries said.
