It takes a smaller, less intrusive government, cutting burdensome red tape, lowering taxes and stopping out-of-control spending and that’s what Tom is fighting for every day in Washington.
Support policies that reduce government size and intrusiveness by cutting burdensome red tape, lowering taxes, and stopping out-of-control spending.
Occurrences
Evidence
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The House Appropriations Committee approved the FY27 Homeland Security bill, which says it codifies reductions to bloated federal bureaucracy and bars funding for DEI efforts.
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Cole said the FY27 Defense bill preserves military superiority while optimizing the Department of Defense and digitizing acquisition processes.
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Cole backed the Secure America Act, describing it as long-term funding for ICE and Border Patrol after repeated obstruction to the appropriations process.
Assessments
The promise is broad and includes three distinct goals: cutting red tape, lowering taxes, and restraining spending. The provided evidence shows Cole materially advancing current-term appropriations measures that he and the committee describe as reducing bureaucracy, constraining some federal programs, and improving administrative efficiency. That supports real effort and some policy movement on smaller-government and spending-restraint themes. But the record here does not show a completed, enacted outcome across the full promise, and it does not show a tax-cut delivery. Because the evidence demonstrates meaningful legislative advancement but not full delivery of the promised package, the best judgment is partial credit in the same term.