Idaho Capital Sun | By Laura Guido
Just over a week after Congress passed a roughly 900-page tax and spending bill, called the “Big Beautiful Bill,” Idaho U.S. Rep. Russ Fulcher fielded questions about it from constituents at a telephone town hall Tuesday evening.
Fulcher touted the legislation, driven by President Donald Trump’s policy priorities, as achieving the president’s major goals including increasing funding for border security and immigration enforcement, extending tax cuts passed during the president’s first term, boosting domestic oil and gas while rolling back incentives for wind and solar production, and making major changes to Medicaid.
“I think it’s really important to point out that we were able to bend the spending trajectory down, that was really important,” Fulcher said during the town hall. “The overall spending is not down, but the rate of growth is.”
The Idaho callers also asked questions about immigration, federal land ownership and more.
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“We’ve got to somehow get more local stakeholder control, not necessarily transferring ownership, I’m not advocating for that,” he said. “Public lands need to stay public, but it needs to be controlled locally.”
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