WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following statement on Dec. 23, 2024: * * * Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement to mark the seventh anniversary of President Trump signing the successful Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) into law: "In 2017, President Trump delivered the most significant tax relief legislation in a generation, unleashing America's potential and creating th  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: American farmers have won a victory over Mexico's unfair trade practices thanks to months of work by Ways and Means Republicans to get the Biden Administration to take action. Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after a United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) dispute settlement panel challenging the Mexic  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following statement: * * * House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation measure, the Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) index, showed inflation rose to 2.4 percent, a level above the Federal Reserve's target: "The Biden-Harris Administration's parting gift to the American people is a  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: America's family farmers are going to feel pressure in the coming months to start dialing up estate planners if Congress fails to act swiftly in the new year to extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts. Should those tax cuts be allowed to expire, two million family farmers would see their Death Tax exemption slashed in half. That would leave more of these small family-ow  more