Tuberville supports President Trump's budget bill

May 19, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) is urging Congress to end all of the bickering and pass Trump's budget which will keep the government funded until the end of September. Sen. Tuberville joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business to discuss the urgent need for Congress to finally pass President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."

The budget proposal cleared the House Budget Committee last night. An earlier version of the bill failed when a handful of Republican budget hawks in the House voted with every Democrat to sabotage the budget plan.

The 'One Big Beautiful Bill' will according to some reports be split it up into three parts and passed one at a time through the budget reconciliation process.

"There is a lot of Republican Senators up here that would love to see more than 'One Big Beautiful Bill,'" said Sen. Tuberville. "There are some pluses and there are some minuses [to that]. But at the end of the day, we've gone a long way and let's go ahead and get this done if we possibly can. I think it's gonna be very tough, though, Larry. There's a lot of reform that has to be put into this bill, not cuts, but reform."

Tuberville said that President Trump, who just got back from a highly productive foreign trip to the Middle East, will meet with Congress on Tuesday.

""I think tomorrow, President Trump's coming here at 8:30 in the morning, as we just heard, is a warning signal that something's not going very well over in the House to get this thing pushed to the Senate," Tuberville told Kudlow.

If Congress does not act quickly the 2017 tax cuts will expire automatically and everyone's take home pay will drop – in some cases dramatically – within just a few weeks.

"We can't do that. It'll be disastrous," Tuberville said.

Tuberville is also pushing for a cut in the taxes paid on overtime. The state of Alabama was the first state to cut taxes on overtime pay; but the Alabama Legislature let that tax cut expires. Trump also wants to end the tax on tips to help blue collar workers in the service industry.

"And, again, going back to the Laffer Curve, we all know.," Tuberville explained. "Everybody understands the more you lower taxes, the more money that comes into the federal government. And we have to understand that. A lot of people don't believe that."

Democrats controlled the White House and both Houses of Congress in 2021 and 2022; yet they did not repeal President Trump's tax cuts. Now they are fighting the effort to extend the Trump tax cuts (the current tax rates) claiming that it helps "millionaires and billionaires."

"Democrats keep fighting back on that," Tuberville said to Kudlow. "But as you said, it has been proven right. So, let's get this done. Let's let President Trump have his tax cuts that he ran on. We need to do that."

The Democrats know that a recession caused by a sudden raise in federal tax rates across the board will lead to a sudden economic slowdown and Republicans, as the party in power, will likely get the blame for that recession.

"If we don't get a tax bill done in the very near future, it won't get done this year, and it will be a disaster for the Republican party," Tuberville warned.

Passing any budget - without support from House Democrats - means that virtually every Republican in the House has to support the bill. Budget hawks led by Rep. Chip Roy and some more vocal members of the Freedom Caucus want a budget with deeper cuts to federal entitlement programs - particularly Medicaid.

Senator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate where he serves as a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans' Affairs, HELP and Aging Committees.