Republicans tout business benefits from Big, Beautiful Bill
MOUNTAIN TOP, PA — PA-08 Rep. Rob Bresnahan and GOP House Conference Chair Lisa McClain (MI-10) visited i2M, a plastics manufacturing plant in Mountain Top, on Wednesday, August 6. They were there to tout the benefits to businesses and employees from President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill (BBB).
“What we’re doing here today is we’re talking about the real policies that make a difference in working class families’ lives,” said McClain.
Speakers highlighted the BBB’s cutting of taxes on overtime. According to Bresnahan’s office, 23 percent of Pennsylvania workers regularly work overtime, and 64 percent work jobs that could benefit from this provision.
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significant reinvestment back into his business.
The BBB “provided him a goalpost so he can make the R&D investments into the next generation of investment that he’s doing right behind us,” said Bresnahan. According to Bresnahan’s office, the BBB includes full expensing for investments into equipment and R&D, allowing companies to deduct the full costs of those investments from their taxes.
Bresnahan also highlighted the BBB’s expansion of college saving plans eligibility, allowing the country to continue to invest in its skilled workforce, he said. “We’re always going to need electricians; we’re always going to need carpenters; we’re always going to need HVAC technicians.”
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In addition, McClain praised Bresnahan for playing an integral part in shaping the bill’s assistance package for rural hospitals.
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Bresnahan was in Trump’s office as the bill was being finalized advocating for rural Pennsylvania to be covered by that rural health transformation fund, said McClain.
The day McClain and Bresnahan visited i2M, the news broke that Commonwealth Health System (CHS) planned to sell the Regional Hospital of Scranton, Moses Taylor Hospital, as well as the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, to Tenor Health Foundation.
“Our team has worked with both the governor’s team, as well a CHS’ team, as well as Tenor, every single day to make sure that there would be a continuity of care, including in that meeting with the President, said Bresnahan. “We had extensive conversations to make sure northeastern Pennsylvania would not be forgotten in that Rural Transformation Fund, so that the acquiring care provider would qualify.”