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September 17, 2025 Smith Statement on Interest Rate Cuts & Fed’s Failure to Act Sooner

“Finally.” WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement after the Federal Open Market…

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September 15, 2025 Even CBO Now Forecasts More Economic Growth Thanks to 2025’s Working Families Tax Cuts

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Just as Republicans unleashed an economic boom after passing the 2017 Trump tax cuts, the recently enacted working…

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September 12, 2025 New Jobs Data Revisions Show High Interest Rates Must Come Down to Let Working Families Tax Cuts Succeed

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nearly a million fewer jobs were created during the end of the Biden Administration, according to a recent…

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September 11, 2025 Tax Cuts for Working Families Rewards Hard Work With Real Relief

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics…

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September 05, 2025 Chairman Smith: Bigger Paychecks Under President Trump

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics…

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August 29, 2025 Fed’s Persistently High Interest Rates Are Unjustified and Harming America’s Economy

Washington, D.C. – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement after the release of the…

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August 12, 2025 Chairman Smith: Six Months In, Workers Have Bigger Paychecks

“It’s not just rising real incomes; lower prices at the grocery store and gas pump are giving families more breathing…

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August 01, 2025 Trump Economy Proven to Deliver For Working Americans

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released…

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July 30, 2025 Chairman Smith: Fed’s Failure To Cut Interest Rates is Harming Working Families Who Bear The Cost of Inaction

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement after the Federal Open Market Committee announced…

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July 15, 2025 The One, Big, Beautiful Bill Is Answer for Inflation Sticker Shock

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics…

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