EXCLUSIVE: Trump tax cuts ‘top priority’ for Congress, says top House GOP leader

EXCLUSIVE – Following President Donald Trump’s "liberation day" tariffs announcement, a apical House GOP person is pushing for Congress to widen the president’s 2017 taxation cuts, which helium says is the adjacent "top priority" for Republicans. 

The transition of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was the archetypal large legislative triumph for the archetypal Trump medication and represented 1 of the astir important achievements of his term. 

Now, aft the Senate passed a solution Saturday nighttime mounting up a process known arsenic reconciliation to bypass immoderate imaginable Democratic filibuster, it’s up to the House to instrumentality the adjacent measurement successful making the cuts permanent.  

Majority Whip Tom Emmer, who represents Minnesota and who holds 1 of the astir influential roles successful the House, told Fox News Digital that extending Trump’s 2017 taxation cuts is 1 of the party’s large points of focus, some successful Congress and successful the White House. 

Emmer is holding an "Invest successful America" roundtable treatment with Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) CEO Jay Timmons and different manufacturing leaders from crossed the state connected Tuesday to sermon the value of solidifying the cuts now. 

According to Emmer's office, the roundtable treatment volition besides item fiscal literacy period and stress the request to springiness each Americans the tools to win financially.

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A apical House GOP person is pushing for Congress to widen the president’s 2017 taxation cuts, which helium says is the adjacent "top priority" for Republicans. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images | Vincent Alban/Bloomberg via Getty Images | Fox News Digital)

Emmer’s bureau told Fox News Digital that the roundtable volition beryllium centered connected the value of Congress preserving the 2017 taxation cuts done reconciliation. 

Reconciliation is simply a mode to fast-track authorities connected issues similar taxes, the indebtedness bounds and national spending by bypassing the Senate’s 60-vote threshold for passage, alternatively lowering it to a elemental 51-vote majority.

"Following Liberation Day, determination is simply a hunger for adjacent much enactment to enactment American workers, businesses and accumulation first," a typical for Emmer said successful a statement. "Continuing the Trump taxation cuts does that, and this treatment volition show the urgency and value of getting it done." 

There are cardinal aspects of the 2017 taxation cuts related to manufacturing that are acceptable to sunset astatine the extremity of the year. Emmer believes that if that happens it would effect successful the "largest taxation hike successful American history." 

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Rep. Tom Emmer speaks during the Republican National Convention, July 16, 2024, successful Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

"House Republicans and the Trump administration cognize the stakes are precocious for Americans regarding taxation reform," said the representative. 

Emmer’s bureau pointed to a NAM survey that recovered a sunset connected these taxation reforms astatine the extremity of 2025 would outgo America 6 cardinal jobs, including implicit 1.1 cardinal manufacturing jobs, arsenic good arsenic $540 cardinal successful mislaid wages and $1.089 trillion successful mislaid GDP. 

While Trump’s tariff argumentation centers connected expanding American productivity and manufacturing, the survey posits that if Congress fails to widen the cuts, the state would beryllium placed backmost successful an uncompetitive planetary taxation authorities that "disincentivizes concern successful the U.S. and hampers manufacturers’ quality to vie connected the satellite stage." 

NAM CEO Jay Timmons told Fox News Digital that helium is calling connected Congress to marque the pro-manufacturing reforms successful Trump’s 2017 taxation cuts permanent, saying "every time without enactment harms manufacturers’ quality to put successful America and program for the future." 

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"Current economical conditions marque renewal of the 2017 taxation reforms adjacent much urgent," said Timmons. "Passage of the archetypal instrumentality ignited occupation creation, wage maturation and concern crossed the country. And arsenic a result, manufacturers kept our promises by expanding operations, boosting wages and benefits and hiring astatine grounds levels. But present cardinal provisions person already expired, and others are acceptable to lapse astatine the extremity of this year." 

"It is past clip to marque these reforms imperishable and much competitive," helium added. "When manufacturing wins, America wins." 

For his part, Emmer told Fox News Digital that extending the taxation reforms is simply a "top precedence for House Republicans, the Trump administration, and American manufacturers alike." 

"The American radical are bare for an economical roar that is already underway," helium said. "But [it] volition lone beryllium afloat realized if Congress acts to proceed the 2017 Trump taxation cuts done reconciliation." 

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent departs pursuing the tariff announcement successful the Rose Garden of the White House connected Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, Bessent told Fox News Digital that "making President Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act imperishable volition assistance to unafraid the unchangeable concern situation that investors are seeking." 

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"Stability successful taxation argumentation fosters certainty, and extending the TCJA volition thrust maturation and managements, investment, and hiring arsenic we participate America’s caller economical aureate age," helium went on, adding, "I look guardant to continuing this important speech with Majority Whip Emmer and members of Congress to present connected these important reforms for the American people."