07.09.25

Six Months of Senate Republican Accomplishments

Over the Course of a Record-Setting First Six Months, the Republican Senate Continues Delivering Win After Win for the American People

SENATE REPUBLICANS’ RECONCILIATION BILL MADE OVER $4 TRILLION IN TAX CUTS PERMANENT THAT PRIMARILY HELP THE MIDDLE CLASS AND MAIN STREET AMERICA

  • Senate Republicans’ reconciliation bill permanently extends the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, preventing a $4.3 trillion tax increase on the American people, including a $2.6 trillion tax hike on households earning less than $400,000 per year. (U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: Crapo Highlights Tax Wins for Hardworking Americans and Main Street – 6/28/25; The Wall Street Journal: Editorial: Republicans Reconcile on Taxes – 2/14/25; U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: Crapo: Senate Republican Plan Powers Economic Growth, Delivers Tax Relief – 6/30/25)
  • The law creates new tax relief for tipped and overtime workers, and gives those making less than $50,000 the largest proportional tax cut:
    • Tipped wages, “up to $25,000 for qualified tips,” will no longer be taxed, benefiting millions of American service workers. (U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: Crapo Highlights Tax Wins for Hardworking Americans and Main Street – 6/28/25)
    • Overtime wages, “up to $12,500 ($25,000 in the case of a joint return) for qualified overtime compensation,” will no longer be taxed, increasing labor productivity and giving millions of hourly workers more take-home pay. (U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: 2025 Tax Reform  – accessed 7/9/25)
    • Individuals making less than $50,000 per year will receive the largest proportional benefit of Republicans’ tax cuts. (U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: One Big Beautiful Bill: New Tax Relief Overwhelmingly Benefits Working Class – 7/1/25)
  • On top of this historic relief for American taxpayers, the law also reduces the burden on Main Street businesses, including:
    • Making permanent the “small business deduction, enabling job creation and spurring local economic activity.”
    • “Full expensing for domestic R&D to encourage domestic innovation.”
    • “Full expensing for new capital investments, like machinery and equipment, to boost domestic production.”
    • “Restor[ing] interest deductibility to a globally competitive standard to help finance critical domestic investments.”
    • “Full expensing for new factories and factory improvements to accelerate domestic manufacturing.”
    • “Permanently renew[ing] and enhanc[ing] the Opportunity Zone program, driving $100+ billion of investment to rural and distressed communities.” (U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: Republicans are Powering the Economy Through Pro-Growth Tax Policy – 6/20/25)

THROUGH RECONCILIATION, REPUBLICANS ALSO DELIVERED TRANSFORMATIVE BORDER SECURITY FUNDING AND A CRITICAL INVESTMENT IN THE MILITARY

  • Senate Republicans’ reconciliation bill allocates $165 billion to fund President Trump’s successful border policies, including:
    • “$46.5 billion to complete construction of the border wall.”
    • “$14.4 billion for removal transportation.”
    • “$4.1 billion to hire additional CBP personnel, including 3,000 more customs officers and 3,000 new Border Patrol agents.”
    • Funding to hire 10,000 new ICE agents.
    • “$45 billion for the detention of illegal aliens ICE has taken into custody pending their removal.”
    • Funding to expand “detention capacity to maintain an average daily population of 100,000 illegal aliens and secures 80,000 new ICE beds.” (U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Secretary Noem Commends President Trump and One Big Beautiful Bill Signing into Law: Historic Win for the American People and the Rule of Law – 7/4/25)
  • To rebuild the U.S. defense industrial base, Senate Republicans’ legislation includes $150 billion in supplemental funding for critical defense areas:
    • “$29 billion for Shipbuilding and the Maritime Industrial Base.”
    • “$25 billion for Golden Dome for America. Supports President Trump’s vision for layered missile defense shield for America. Develops space-based assets support the system and rapidly accelerates missile defense against threats to the homeland and deployed troops.”
    • “$25 billion for Munitions. Accelerates purchases of most important munitions… Expands capacity in the industrial base to support higher levels of munitions production. Ramps up production of and critical minerals to execute President Trump’s EO. Expands production of missile defense interceptors and counter drone capabilities.”
    • “$16 billion… Expands DoD initiatives to scale production of game-changing new technology and expedite delivery of low-cost, attritable weapons systems and artificial intelligence needed to ensure success on future battlefields.”
    • “$12 billion for Pacific Deterrence. Expands military exercises and improves readiness of Indo-Pacific forces. Acquires capability and builds infrastructure needed to defend forces and conduct military operations in the Western Pacific.” (U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services: SASC Chairman Roger Wicker Releases Updated Text of Defense Reconciliation Bill – 6/25/25)

SIX MONTHS IN, SENATE REPUBLICANS HAVE SET SEVERAL RECORDS FOR PRODUCTIVITY AND CONFIRMING PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TEAM

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  • The Senate confirmed 21 members of President Trump’s Cabinet, putting his team in place sooner than the last three incoming administrations. (CNN: Tracking Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and administration – updated 5/8/25; Breitbart: Exclusive — Thune on Confirming Trump Nominees: Dems ‘Can Scream and Light Their Hair on Fire, but It’s Not Going to Change Anything’ – 5/1/25)
  • The Senate has confirmed 89 of President Trump’s civilian nominees, with two more confirmations expected Wednesday evening, far outpacing the rate in the first Trump administration (49) as of July 9. (Senate Majority Leader: President Trump's Senate-Confirmed Nominees – accessed 7/9/25; U.S. Congress: 115th Congress Nominees – accessed 7/9/25)
  • The Senate has confirmed 12 ambassador nominees, a total more than at this point in the incoming Biden, first Trump, and George W. Bush administrations. (Senate Majority Leader: President Trump's Senate-Confirmed Nominees – accessed 7/9/25; Center for Presidential Transition: Joe Biden’s First Year in Office: Nominations and Confirmations – 1/9/22; U.S. Congress: 115th Congress Nominations – accessed 7/8/25; U.S. Congress: 107th Congress Nominations – accessed 7/9/25)
  • The 119th Congress began with 10 straight weeks of voting in the Senate – the longest continuous stretch in more than 15 years. In total, the Senate has been in session and voting for 23 of the last 27 weeks. (U.S. Senate: Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session (2025) – accessed 7/9/25; U.S. Senate: First Session of One Hundred Eleventh Congress Calendar of Business – accessed 7/9/25)
  • Senate Republicans accomplished these nominations milestones despite historic Democrat obstruction:
    • For the first time since at least the Hoover administration, President Trump still has not had a single civilian nominee confirmed via voice vote or unanimous consent. (U.S. Congress: 119th Congress Nominees – accessed 7/9/25; The Daily Caller: EXCLUSIVE: Thune Says Trump Nominees Are Being Confirmed At Rapid Pace Despite ‘Historic’ Obstruction – 6/14/25)
    • With the exception of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s nomination, every single one of President Trump’s civilian nominees has required a cloture vote, an unprecedented number in the last 24 years. (U.S. Senate: Cloture Motions - 117th Congress – accessed 7/9/25; U.S. Congress: 117th Congress Nominees – accessed 7/9/25; U.S. Senate: Cloture Motions - 115th Congress – accessed 7/9/25: U.S. Congress: 115th Congress Nominees – accessed 7/9/25; U.S. Senate: Cloture Motions - 111th Congress – accessed 7/9/25; U.S. Congress: 111th Congress Nominees – accessed 7/9/25; U.S. Senate: Cloture Motions - 107th Congress – accessed 7/9/25; U.S. Congress: 107th Congress Nominees – accessed 7/9/25)
    • Democrats have even forced cloture votes on 20 non-controversial civilian nominees that went on to receive at least 60 votes upon final confirmation. (U.S. Senate: Cloture Motions - 119th Congress – accessed 6/5/25; U.S. Congress: 119th Congress Nominees – accessed 7/9/25)
  • The Republican-led Senate has passed more pieces of legislation via roll call vote (25) than any Congress at the start of a new administration in the last 35-plus years. (U.S. Senate: Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session (2025) – accessed 7/9/25; U.S. Senate: Roll Call Votes 117th Congress - 1st Session (2021) – accessed 7/9/25; U.S. Senate: Roll Call Votes 115th Congress - 1st Session (2017) – accessed 7/9/25; U.S. Senate: Roll Call Votes 111th Congress-1st session (2009) – accessed 7/9/25; U.S. Senate: Roll Call Votes 107th Congress-1st session (2001) – accessed 7/9/25; U.S. Senate: Roll Call Votes 103rd Congress-1st session (1993) – accessed 7/9/25; U.S. Senate: Roll Call Votes 101st Congress-1st session (1989) – accessed 7/9/25)
  • The 119th Senate has taken more roll call votes in its first six months than every Congress in the last 35-plus years, and has already taken more votes in six months than it did in a majority of those entire years. (U.S. Senate: Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session (2025) – accessed 7/9/25)

ADDITIONAL CONSEQUENTIAL LEGISLATIVE VICTORIES RANGED FROM BORDER SECURITY AND IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT TO OVERTURNING BIDEN-ERA OVERREACH

  • “President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law on [January 29], marking the first piece of legislation to become law in his second administration.” (Fox News: Trump signs Laken Riley Act into law as first legislative victory in new administration – 1/29/25)
    • “The measure, which advanced through the House and Senate in January, directs Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain illegal immigrants arrested or charged with theft-related crimes, or those accused of assaulting a police officer. The law also allows states to sue the Department of Homeland Security for harm caused to their citizens because of illegal immigration.” (Fox News: Trump signs Laken Riley Act into law as first legislative victory in new administration – 1/29/25)
  • Working to combat the opioid epidemic, the Senate in March passed the HALT Fentanyl Act in an overwhelmingly bipartisan 84-16 vote. (S. 331: Roll Call Vote #127 – 3/14/25; The Washington Examiner: Democrats to hand Trump second legislative win with Senate fentanyl vote – 3/6/25)
    • The bill “would update federal law to list fentanyl knockoffs in the same category as heroin or LSD permanently,” which would allow “law enforcement to impose stiff penalties on their production and sale…” (The Washington Examiner: Democrats to hand Trump second legislative win with Senate fentanyl vote – 3/6/25)
    • Passage of the HALT Fentanyl Act gives President Trump “another bipartisan legislative victory since returning to the White House in January.” (The Washington Examiner: Democrats to hand Trump second legislative win with Senate fentanyl vote – 3/6/25)
  • In a bipartisan 68-30 vote, the Senate passed the GENIUS Act, which “would create the first-ever U.S. regulatory framework for digital tokens known as stablecoins whose value is pegged to the dollar.” (S. 1582: Roll Call Vote #318 – 6/17/25; Politico: Senators ‘working to get back to the table’ on crypto bill, key Dem says – 5/13/25)