Steve supports making the Bush tax reductions permanent, so that our families and businesses know how much they can save and invest from year to year.
Support making the Bush tax reductions permanent.
Occurrences
Evidence
The enacted law includes a chapter on permanent tax relief and extends reduced tax rates, the standard deduction, and the child tax credit.
The Post says Scalise was helping drive the House GOP’s major tax-and-border package and was one of the few leaders with experience from the 2017 tax-cut fight.
Public Law 112-240 permanently extended and modified 2001 tax relief, struck the EGTRRA sunset title, retained lower 25%, 28%, 33%, and limited 35% brackets, and permanently extended and modified 2003 tax relief.
Congress.gov records H.R. 8 as becoming Public Law No. 112-240 on 2013-01-02. Its CRS summary says the law made EGTRRA permanent for taxpayers at or below the $400,000/$450,000 thresholds and made JGTRRA capital gain and dividend tax-rate reductions permanent for those taxpayers.
Congress.gov records H.R. 1 as becoming Public Law No. 119-21 on 2025-07-04. Its summary says the tax title provides permanent tax relief and makes permanent individual rates of 10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35%, and 37%.
Public Law 119-21 includes Chapter 1, Providing Permanent Tax Relief for Middle-Class Families and Workers. Section 70101 amends Internal Revenue Code section 1(j) by removing the before-January-1-2026 expiration language and changing the heading to apply beginning after 2017.
The Clerk records Roll Call 190 on H.R. 1 as a passed motion to concur in the Senate amendment to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, 218-214. The member list shows Scalise, Republican of Louisiana, voting Aye.
The Clerk records Roll Call 145 on passage of H.R. 1 as passed, 215-214-1. The member list shows Scalise, Republican of Louisiana, voting Yea.
Assessments
The promised policy was to support making the Bush-era tax reductions permanent. Congress later enacted Public Law 112-240 in 2013, which permanently extended substantial 2001 and 2003 Bush tax relief, though with modifications for high-income taxpayers. The strongest later evidence also shows Scalise personally voting for and helping advance the 2025 law that made major reduced individual tax rates permanent. Because the core federal tax-cut permanence objective was ultimately enacted while Scalise remained in federal office and he supported the later permanent-rate package, this counts as delivered with later_term timing rather than merely an attempted or unresolved promise.
Scalise’s promise was to support making the Bush-era tax cuts permanent. The strongest evidence indicates that major reduced tax rates and related tax relief were later enacted on a permanent basis in Public Law 119-21 in 2025. Candidate-specific reporting also shows Scalise materially helped drive the House GOP tax package that produced that outcome. Because the delivery came in a later period rather than the original promise term, but with meaningful ongoing candidate involvement, this is best scored as delivered with later_term timing.