get our economy back on track
Get the economy back on track.
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Steve is fighting to promote fiscal discipline, create good-paying jobs, protect our freedoms, and get our economy back on track.
bringing bills to the floor to cut red tape, lower costs, and support rural communities
We're bringing bills to make life more affordable for hardworking families.
bills that we passed to root out waste, fraud, and abuse, which had a lot to do with lowering inflation
Congress can use the reconciliation process to achieve our pro-growth agenda to get the economy back on track.
And frankly, we're going to continue working to make life more affordable for working families.
Evidence
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Leader Scalise outlined how with President Trump back in the White House and a Republican Senate, Congress can use the reconciliation process to achieve our pro-growth agenda to get the economy back on track.
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Roll Call Number: 145 | Bill Number: H. R. 1 | Vote Question: On Passage | Bill Title & Description: One Big Beautiful Act | Status: Passed | Votes yea: 215 nay: 214 present: 1 not voting: 2.
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Public Law 119-21, An Act To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14, was enacted on July 4, 2025. The text includes middle-class tax relief provisions such as no tax on tips.
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Roll 190 | 3-Jul | H R 1 | On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment | P | One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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Payroll employment rose by 172,000 in May and the unemployment rate held at 4.3 percent.
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CPI-U rose 4.2 percent over the 12 months ending May; core CPI rose 2.9 percent.
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Real GDP increased at an annual rate of 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2026.
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Personal income was essentially flat; real PCE rose 0.1 percent; PCE prices rose 0.4 percent in April and 3.8 percent year over year.
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The goods and services deficit was $55.9 billion in April, down from $56.6 billion in March; exports rose 2.6 percent.
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The Producer Price Index for final demand was unchanged in July 2026, but final demand prices increased 4.7 percent for the 12 months ended in July; final demand less foods, energy, and trade services rose 0.4 percent in July and 4.7 percent over 12 months.
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Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for July 2026 were $763.6 billion, down 0.6 percent from the previous month, but up 5.0 percent from July 2025; May through July sales were up 6.3 percent from the same period a year ago.
Assessments
Scalise materially advanced a federal economic agenda during the same congressional term, including House passage and enactment of the 2025 reconciliation law with tax and growth-related provisions. However, the promised outcome was broad and economy-wide, and the supplied 2026 indicators are mixed: employment and GDP remained positive and retail/trade data showed some improvement, while inflation and producer-price pressures remained elevated and income/spending data were weak. That supports partial progress and serious effort, but not full delivery that the economy was definitively back on track.
Scalise materially advanced a House Republican economic agenda tied to this promise, including helping move and pass H.R. 1 and the reconciliation package that became Public Law 119-21 in July 2025. That supports meaningful same-term action and some policy delivery. But the promise was an outcome claim about getting the economy 'back on track,' and the later macro evidence remains mixed: job growth and GDP stayed positive, while inflation and real-income data still showed notable weakness. Because there was concrete legislative progress without clear proof that the broader economy was fully back on track, the best judgment is partial rather than delivered.
Scalise and House Republicans made a concrete same-term legislative attempt through the 2025 reconciliation package, and Public Law 119-21 enacted tax and economic provisions that plausibly advance a pro-growth agenda. However, the promise is broad and outcome-based: 'get the economy back on track' requires evidence of realized macroeconomic recovery or clear economic normalization, not just passage of favored policy. The evidence supports meaningful progress and delivery of components, but not full fulfillment of the overall economic outcome.