Tom is focused on lowering costs for families
Lower costs for families.
Occurrences
working to lower the cost of living
introduced commonsense, bipartisan legislation to provide financial relief to millions of American renters
I'm glad to lead the bipartisan effort to give hardworking families more financial breathing room by allowing them to deduct a month of rent from their tax bill.
I introduced the Tax Relief for Renters Act, which would put more money back into the pockets of Americans by allowing renters to claim a deduction of one month's rent on their personal taxes each year.
Tom is focused on keeping costs low for families
Evidence
Representatives Kean and Landsman introduced the Tax Relief for Renters Act, which would put more money back into the pockets of Americans by allowing renters to claim a deduction of one month’s rent on their personal taxes each year. New Jersey families who rent are facing costs that continue to outpace paychecks, stretching household budgets thin.
This bipartisan effort will extend the credits for another year as Congress continues working together on long-term solutions to lower health care premiums.
This bipartisan legislation would require insurance companies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) to count the value of copay assistance they receive on a patient’s behalf toward cost-sharing requirements. Congressman Tom Kean, Jr. said the bill will help working American families afford their prescriptions and reduce overall healthcare costs for families.
The House bill restores the full SALT deduction for middle-class families, provides up to $40,000 in deductibility, boosts the Child Tax Credit to $2,500, and includes PBM reform to lower costs for Medicare and consumers.
Kean said the government funding bills included district projects benefiting senior nutrition and wellness programming and access to programs such as LIHEAP and senior farmers market vouchers; he also said some projects would help reduce municipal energy costs.
The Mountainside Emergency Operations Center project was included in the Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act of 2026 (H.R.7147), which was signed into law on April 30, 2026. Kean says he delivered on all 15 district funding requests.
GovInfo shows H.R. 7147 became law as an enrolled act on April 30, 2026.
Kean announced the MAHA Act, which would create a new tax credit for Americans purchasing their primary home; he said it would lower the barrier to entry and strengthen the path to homeownership for American families.
Assessments
Kean has taken multiple concrete actions aligned with lowering family costs, including introducing bills on renter tax relief, homebuyer tax credits, prescription drug cost protections, and supporting measures to prevent premium hikes. There is also evidence he helped secure funding tied to LIHEAP, senior food access, and some local cost relief. However, the strongest direct family-cost items in the record are proposals or House-passage advocacy rather than clearly enacted, broad cost reductions attributable to him within the available evidence. The enacted appropriations items are only indirectly related to the broad promise. Because he materially pursued the promise but the evidence does not show clear, comprehensive delivery of lower costs for families, partial credit is the best fit.