Trump pitches a new 'B.B. BILL'

Donald Trump’s new “B.B. BILL” pitch is basically a campaign brochure built to sound like one answer to six complaints at once: high taxes, low take-home pay, illegal immigration, school frustration, child-care strain, and distrust of Biden-era spending. The package is being framed around making the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent while adding newer promises like no tax on tips and overtime. (waysandmeans.house.gov) The phrase “22 percent tax hike” is not a random slogan. It comes from the scheduled expiration of most individual provisions in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on December 31, 2025, which would push the tax code back toward pre-2018 rules in 2026 if Congress did nothing. (congress.gov, bipartisanpolicy.org) That 2017 law changed tax rates, the standard deduction, the child tax credit, the deduction for pass-through businesses, and the estate-tax threshold. Congressional Research Service analysts said in March 2025 that most of those individual provisions were still set to expire at the end of 2025. (congress.gov) Republicans turned that expiration into a simple message: extend the old tax cuts and call it tax relief, or let them lapse and call it a tax increase. The House Ways and Means Committee said its 2025 version would “protect the average taxpayer from a 22 percent tax hike” and would also boost the child tax credit for more than 40 million families. (waysandmeans.house.gov) The “no tax on tips” and “no tax on overtime” lines came straight from Trump’s 2024 campaign and were later folded into the House bill Republicans advanced in May 2025. Associated Press reporting on that House package said the tax breaks for tips, overtime, and some car-loan interest were written as temporary provisions lasting through 2028. (scrippsnews.com) School choice is in there because Republicans tied education policy to the tax code instead of writing a direct federal voucher check. A section-by-section summary from House Ways and Means said the bill would create a new tax credit for donations to scholarship groups for elementary and secondary students, and the standalone Educational Choice for Children Act had already been introduced in Congress as House Bill 833 on January 31, 2025. (waysandmeans.house.gov, congress.gov) The border-wall piece is there for the same reason: it lets Trump fuse tax relief with immigration enforcement into one brand. The 2024 Republican platform explicitly called for completing the southern border wall that Trump started, and the House package that moved in May 2025 paired tax cuts with border-security funding in a single bill. (rncplatform.donaldjtrump.com, scrippsnews.com) This is also a direct contrast with Joe Biden’s domestic agenda. House Republicans said their bill would repeal or phase out clean-energy tax credits enacted during Biden’s presidency to help offset the cost of the tax package, which turns the argument into workers’ paychecks and border spending versus electric vehicles, factory subsidies, and climate incentives. (scrippsnews.com, waysandmeans.house.gov) The catch is that the sales pitch is cleaner than the policy math. The Bipartisan Policy Center said in April 2025 that making the expiring individual tax provisions permanent would increase deficits by an estimated $2.6 trillion over 10 years, and FactCheck.org later noted that competing claims around the final 2025 bill often depended on optimistic growth assumptions and disputed budget scoring. (bipartisanpolicy.org, factcheck.org) So the “B.B. BILL” is less a fully settled bill than a political template. It tells you the Republican 2026 message in plain English: extend the Trump tax cuts, put cash-heavy workers and parents at the center, expand private-school options, finish the wall, and make Biden’s industrial and clean-energy spending look like the thing that gets cut first. (waysandmeans.house.gov, rncplatform.donaldjtrump.com)