Support making the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and its economic growth provisions permanent.

By voting yes, we’re voting for a path to make the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent. It means making economic growth provisions like research and development, the small business pass-through, interest deductibility and immediate expensing permanent parts of our tax code.

Estes committed to supporting a path to make the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent, including specified business tax provisions.

House Passes Budget Resolution in Win for America First Agenda | U.S. Representative Ron Estes
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Public Law 115-97, section 11001, created rate modifications for taxable years 2018 through 2025 and applied them to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017, and before January 1, 2026.

The original Tax Cuts and Jobs Act lowered individual tax rates only temporarily through 2025, so the permanence part of the promise was not fulfilled by the 2017 law itself.

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Public Law 115-97, 115th Congress, GovInfo
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Congress.gov says H.R.6760 was received in the Senate on October 1, 2018 after passing the House, and CRS summarizes that the bill would make permanent several 2017 tax provisions scheduled to expire at the end of 2025, including reduced individual rates, qualified business income deduction, increased standard deduction, child tax credit changes, estate and gift tax exemption increases, and AMT exemption increases.

House Republicans advanced a concrete TCJA permanency bill in 2018, but it did not become law; it passed the House and stopped in the Senate Finance Committee.

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H.R.6760 - Protecting Family and Small Business Tax Cuts Act of 2018, Congress.gov
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 414 on H.R.6760, Protecting Family and Small Business Tax Cuts Act of 2018, as passed 220-191. The vote list records Estes (KS), Republican, Kansas, voting Yea.

Ron Estes voted for the 2018 House bill to make major TCJA individual and small-business provisions permanent, showing concrete effort before the bill failed to become law.

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House Clerk Roll Call 414, H.R.6760, 115th Congress
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Congress.gov records H.R.1 as Public Law No. 119-21, with final actions: passed House on May 22, 2025; passed Senate on July 1, 2025; House agreed to the Senate amendment on July 3, 2025; and became law on July 4, 2025.

The 2025 reconciliation bill became law, providing the legislative vehicle that ultimately made major TCJA provisions permanent after Estes's original campaign term.

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H.R.1 - An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14, Congress.gov
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Public Law 119-21, Title VII, Subtitle A, Chapter 1 is titled Providing Permanent Tax Relief for Middle-class Families and Workers. Section 70101 extends and enhances reduced rates by striking the January 1, 2026 sunset language and changing the heading from 2018 Through 2025 to Beginning After 2017. Section 70102 similarly extends and enhances the increased standard deduction.

The enacted 2025 law made core TCJA individual tax-rate and standard-deduction provisions permanent by removing their 2026 sunset language.

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Public Law 119-21, 119th Congress, GovInfo
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Section 70105 is titled Extension and Enhancement of Deduction for Qualified Business Income and amends section 199A, including higher phase-in amounts and a minimum deduction for active qualified business income, effective for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025.

The 2025 law extended and enhanced the TCJA qualified business income deduction, a small-business/pass-through provision tied to the economic growth portion of the promise.

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Public Law 119-21, 119th Congress, GovInfo
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Public Law 119-21 labels Subchapter A as Permanent U.S. Business Tax Reform and Boosting Domestic Investment. Section 70301 is Full Expensing for Certain Business Property and states Made Permanent; it also replaces applicable percentage with 100 percent. Section 70302 provides full expensing of domestic research and experimental expenditures.

The 2025 law also made or restored business investment incentives, including 100 percent expensing and domestic R&D expensing, supporting the economic growth provisions part of the promise.

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Public Law 119-21, 119th Congress, GovInfo
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 190 on H.R.1, vote question On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, status Passed 218-214. The vote list records Estes, Republican, Kansas, voting Aye.

Ron Estes voted for final House agreement to the Senate amendment to H.R.1, the bill that became Public Law 119-21 and delivered TCJA permanency provisions.

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House Clerk Roll Call 190, H.R. 1 Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment
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