WASHINGTON, DC-- Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (CO-04) provided the following statement on her YES vote and passage of H.R. 1, President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill:

"Voting YES on President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill is a major step towards implementing the America First mandate voters delivered to us last November. This critical legislation makes the Trump tax cuts permanent, unleashes American energy production, invests billions in support of our farmers and ranchers by responsibly reforming SNAP benefits, strengthens Medicaid to focus on American citizens who truly need help, and delivers a final net deficit reduction of $1.5 trillion. There's work to be done in the coming months to further codify President Trump's agenda and executive orders, but The One Big Beautiful Bill puts us on a pathway to American greatness."

H.R. 1 includes the language of Congresswoman Boebert's American Energy Act, which streamlines the permitting process for oil & gas producers and protects projects from being slowed down by malicious and frivolous lawsuits.

Congresswoman Boebert also fought for specific policy victories in The One Big Beautiful Bill including:

• Removing suppressors from the National Firearms Act (NFA). This would remove the unconstitutional excise tax currently levied on suppressors as well as remove the onerous governmental restrictions including government registry, fingerprinting, extensive wait times, and the requirement of carrying proof of tax paid while visiting a gun range.
• Ensuring all illegal aliens including parolees are not receiving federal benefits.
• Continuing to remove the waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid by preventing reimbursements for transgender surgeries.
• Putting in work requirements for Medicaid by 2026 to ensure these dollars will be used to help our most vulnerable populations.
• Ensuring taxpayer dollars will not fund abortion providers.
• Phasing out Joe Biden’s Green New Scam by 2028 and putting American Energy producers back in business.
• Incentivizing states not to expand the welfare state and take care of our seniors.

BACKGROUND:

The One Big Beautiful Bill includes the following key highlights:

• Delivers an economy that is pro-growth, pro-worker, pro-family, and pro-business:
  • Makes the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent, preventing the average taxpayer from seeing a 22% tax hike.
  • Delivers on President Trump’s priorities of no tax on tips, overtime pay, and car loan interest, and providing additional tax relief for seniors.
  • Supports small businesses and Made-in-America investments through immediate 100% expensing, incentives for new manufacturing facilities, R&D immediate amortization, and interest expense deductions.
• Provides over $140 billion – the largest border security investment in history – to secure our borders and keep Americans safe:
  • Allows for the completion of 701 miles of primary wall and construction of 900 miles of river barriers.
  • Funds at least one million annual removals, 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, and detention capacity sufficient to maintain an average daily population of at least 100,000 aliens.
  • Supports the hiring and training of 3,000 new Border Patrol agents, 5,000 new Office of Field Operations customs officers, and other urgently needed personnel.
• Restores integrity to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by requiring states to shoulder a share of the benefit costs, preventing states from manipulating SNAP eligibility and benefit calculations, and restoring SNAP work requirements for able-bodied adults without young dependents.
• Strengthens Medicaid for Americans who truly need it, while rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse:
  • Establishes commonsense work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents and stops new money laundering gimmicks like provider taxes and State Directed Payments.
  • Strengthens program integrity measures that protect Medicaid resources for the most vulnerable.
  • Closes loopholes that let illegal immigrants enroll in Medicaid and reduces funding to states that prioritize Medicaid coverage of illegal immigrants. In total, 1.4 million illegal immigrants who are gaming the system will be kicked off Medicaid as a result of this bill.
• Reverses Biden’s radical Green New Deal agenda:
  • Repeals Biden’s EV mandates and CAFE standards for passenger cars and light trucks.
  • Rescinding wasteful environmental slush funds.
  • Repeals and phases out Inflation Reduction Act subsidies.
• Unleashes American energy dominance, ensuring affordable energy for families and creating jobs across the country:
  • Reinstates quarterly onshore oil and gas lease sales and mandates at least 30 lease sales in the Gulf of America over the next 15 years and six in the Cook Inlet in south-central Alaska.
  • Resumes leasing for energy production in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and coal leasing on federal lands.
  • Streamlines the permitting process for energy infrastructure.
• Makes major reforms to streamline student loan options, support student success, and save taxpayer money.
• Invests nearly $144 billion to modernize our military and strengthen national defense.