<p>President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;one big, beautiful bill&#8221; offers a &#8220;historic level of mandatory savings,&#8221; Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Russell Vought declared on Wednesday when pressed for a response to the legislation&#8217;s skeptics among conservative lawmakers.</p>
<p>Vought spoke about the legislation making its way through Congress through the reconciliation process during an appearance on &#8220;The Ben Shapiro Show&#8221; as House Republican leadership tries to rally the GOP rank-and-file behind the comprehensive package that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/passing-trump-one-big-beautiful-bill-gop-duty-voters-white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aims</a> to provide funding for Trump’s domestic priorities, retain the 2017 tax cuts, raise the debt limit, and more.</p>
<p>After noting how fiscal hawks are experiencing &#8220;heartburn&#8221; over the bill not doing enough to reduce the deficit and concerns that it might actually contribute to the deficit or add to the nearly $37 trillion national debt, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro asked Vought to provide the &#8220;truth&#8221; of the matter.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/RussVought45?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RussVought45</a>, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, details President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;one big, beautiful bill&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/qtTZ876fUk">pic.twitter.com/qtTZ876fUk</a></p>
<p>— The Ben Shapiro Show (@BenShapiroShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/BenShapiroShow/status/1925245778114584630?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;This is the most historic level of mandatory savings that we&#8217;ve had, ever: $1.6 trillion,&#8221; Vought replied. &#8220;And just to give people a little bit of context: for 30 years, we&#8217;ve had virtually no efforts to&#8221; rein in spending programs, &#8220;which are the things that are kind of hardwired into permanent law. Welfare benefits, things like Medicaid, and we&#8217;ve had nothing of consequence since the 1997 Balanced Budget Agreement which included the work requirements with a Republican Congress and [former President] Bill Clinton.&#8221;</p>
<p>Vought said the bill currently being considered by Congress &#8220;essentially doubles that with $1.6 trillion, begins to have sizable savings to get illegal immigrants off of Medicaid, to have a work requirement in Medicaid to take those reforms from 1997 and apply them to more of the federal programs to get people back into the labor force.&#8221;</p>
<p>The bill &#8220;does sizable things,&#8221; Vought continued, noting that the Trump administration believes the bill will also bring economic growth.</p>
<p>&#8220;My view as the budget guy: you can&#8217;t cut spending if you don&#8217;t have a growing economy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And so, the last thing you wanna do is not preserve these cuts, get them extended, that really is just what current law is. There&#8217;s a unique thing in budget land where you allow for programs to be permanent, but tax relief sunsets. So all that we&#8217;re doing is extending what is essentially current law and then adding $1.6 trillion in mandatory savings. We think it&#8217;s actually historic and something this town hasn&#8217;t even begun to approach, as we are working with members to be able to tell that story.&#8221;</p>

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