WASHINGTON, DC – A think tank with ties to the liberal wing of the Democrat party is drawing scrutiny from Ways and Means Republicans after it was selected by the Biden Administration to receive $15 million in taxpayer funds to “review” an e-file program designed to make the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) both tax collector and tax preparer – a program for which the ...
House Committee on Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) announced this week that the Committee will hold its second field hearing on the State of the American Economy: The Heartland. The hearing will take place on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, in Yukon, Oklahoma.
“During our first official hearing of the 118th Congress, the Ways and Means Committee ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Taxpayers whose privacy has been repeatedly abused and their financial information leaked by the government deserve answers from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), wrote House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) and House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman David Schweikert (AZ-01) in a
WASHINGTON, DC – Promoting working class families over special interests in the Ways and Means Committee has corporate America in an uproar, said Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) in an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham Monday evening.
Small businesses continue to be weighed down by historic inflation, chronic labor shortages, and pessimistic expectations of economic conditions for the future, according to the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index. Small businesses ...
WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, the House Ways and Means Committee approved legislation to jumpstart recovery efforts on hundreds of billions of dollars of COVID unemployment insurance payments stolen by fraud. The Department of Labor Inspector General estimated that improper payments in pandemic unemployment programs have left taxpayers on the hook for at least $191 billion. ...
By Chairman Jason Smith
CNBC
With the way cable news talking heads describe debt ceiling negotiations, one might think America is headed for an extinction-level event.
Left-wing pundits argue that anything but a “clean raise” in the debt ...
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"At the height of the COVID pandemic, government lockdowns shuttered Main Street businesses and kept American workers at home. Congress provided targeted and temporary support for workers and businesses – including through unemployment insurance.
Unfortunately, that work was undermined, and many of those families fell victim to predatory fraudsters in what ...
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"During two years of one-party Democrat rule in Washington, this Committee should have done robust oversight of the Biden Administration – instead, it overlooked the Administration’s worst behaviors.
Whether it was rampant spending driving up inflation or tax increases that will only further shrink the wallets of families, farmers, and small businesses, the ...
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"We have before us the committee’s Views and Estimates for the fiscal year 2024 Budget.
As the former Republican leader of the House Budget Committee, I have a special appreciation for this step in the annual Congressional budget process. Not only is it helpful to our friends on the Budget Committee; it gives this committee an opportunity to chart a new ...
