04.11.25

Senate Republicans’ First 100 Days Marked by Accomplishment After Accomplishment

Since Day One, Senate Republicans Have Been Delivering for the American People: Confirming the President’s Team, Strengthening Border and Immigration Security, and Paving the Way for President Trump’s Agenda

IN 13 WEEKS OF SESSION, SENATE REPUBLICANS CONFIRMED PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CABINET AT THE FASTEST PACE IN OVER 20 YEARS AND VOTED MORE THAN ANY CONGRESS SINCE THE REAGAN ERA

  • The 119th Congress began with 10 straight weeks of voting in the Senate – the longest continuous stretch in more than 15 years, per the Congressional Research Service. In total, the Senate has been in session and voting for 13 of the last 14 weeks. (U.S. Senate: Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session (2025) – accessed 4/9/25; U.S. Senate: First Session of One Hundred Eleventh Congress Calendar of Business – accessed 4/9/25)
  • The Senate has taken more roll call votes in its first 100 days than any Congress since the Reagan era. (U.S. Senate: Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session (2025) – accessed 4/10/25)

THE BUDGET RESOLUTION PASSED BY BOTH CHAMBERS OF CONGRESS UNLOCKS THE PROCESS FOR EXTENDING THE TAX CUTS AND JOBS ACT, SECURING THE BORDER, REVITALIZING THE MILITARY, AND UNLEASHING AMERICAN ENERGY PRODUCTION

“[T]he Senate took one small step toward reconciliation and one giant leap toward making the tax cuts permanent, securing the border, providing much-needed help for the military and finally cutting wasteful Washington spending.” – Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)

  • The budget resolution passed by both chambers of Congress unlocks the ability to:
    • Permanently extend the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), preventing a $4 trillion tax hike on the American people and providing relief to typical families, who would see a $1,700 tax increase if the TCJA expires; and small businesses, which would face upward of $600 billion in tax increases if the TCJA expires.
    • Provide $175 billion to secure the border.
    • Allocate $150 billion to revitalize “our military by providing critical funding for the Department of Defense to strengthen the U.S. military to deter conflict and ensure our nation’s security.”
    • Facilitate “energy independence by unleashing American energy production through on and offshore lease sales, and stopping the Biden Administration’s natural gas tax, also known as the methane emissions fee.” (Thomson Reuters: What to know about TCJA expiration – 9/13/24; Tax Foundation: Tax Calculator: How the TCJA’s Expiration Will Affect You – 3/12/24; U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: Crapo on Extension of Trump Tax Cuts: Failure is Not an Option – 2/20/25; H.Con.Res. 14: Roll Call Vote #191 – 4/5/25; U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget: Chairman Graham: I Am Confident We Will Rise To The Occasion – 4/2/25; U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget: Chairman Graham Unveils FY 2025 Budget Resolution To Secure The Border, Revitalize Our Military, Unleash American Energy Production And Begin The Process Of Restoring Fiscal Sanity – 2/7/25)
  • “We’ve got to have Congress fund this operation. I mean, we’re hoping to get some funding through reconciliation, but now that’s — we got to hope Congress gets that done, because there is a limited amount of funds. And to do more, we got to buy more detention beds. We need more flights. We need more officers. We need more overtime. Bottom line is: The more money we get, the more successful we will be.” – White House Border Czar Tom Homan
  • “Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi penned a letter to top appropriators in the House and Senate, pleading with them to designate more funds to the cause of securing the U.S. southern border.” (Fox News: Noem, Hegseth, Bondi plead with Congress for more border funding amid large-scale deportations – 2/11/25)
  • Secretary Hegseth “committed to backing” the Senate’s $150 billion in national security funding for the Pentagon. (Punchbowl News: The House-Senate tension on budget reconciliation – 3/12/25)
  • “Approval paves the way for Republicans in the months ahead to try to power a tax cut bill through both chambers of Congress over the objections of Democrats, just as they did in Trump’s first term with unified party control in Washington.” (The Associated Press: Senate GOP approves framework for Trump’s tax breaks and spending cuts after late-night session – 4/5/25)

SENATE REPUBLICANS ALSO PASSED TWO MAJOR BORDER AND CRIME-RELATED BILLS

  • “President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law on [January 29], marking the first piece of legislation to become law in his second administration.” (Fox News: Trump signs Laken Riley Act into law as first legislative victory in new administration – 1/29/25)
    • “The measure, which advanced through the House and Senate in January, directs Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain illegal immigrants arrested or charged with theft-related crimes, or those accused of assaulting a police officer. The law also allows states to sue the Department of Homeland Security for harm caused to their citizens because of illegal immigration.” (Fox News: Trump signs Laken Riley Act into law as first legislative victory in new administration – 1/29/25)
  • “President Donald Trump will soon have a second bill to sign into law as Democrats hand him the votes for a bipartisan victory on the opioid epidemic.” (The Washington Examiner: Democrats to hand Trump second legislative win with Senate fentanyl vote – 3/6/25)
    • The Senate passed the HALT Fentanyl Act with an overwhelmingly bipartisan 84-16 vote. (S. 331: Roll Call Vote #127 – 3/14/25)
    • The bill “would update federal law to list fentanyl knockoffs in the same category as heroin or LSD permanently,” which would allow “law enforcement to impose stiff penalties on their production and sale…” (The Washington Examiner: Democrats to hand Trump second legislative win with Senate fentanyl vote – 3/6/25)
    • Passage of the HALT Fentanyl Act gives President Trump “another bipartisan legislative victory since returning to the White House in January.” (The Washington Examiner: Democrats to hand Trump second legislative win with Senate fentanyl vote – 3/6/25)

SENATE REPUBLICANS ALSO OVERTURNED SEVEN COSTLY AND BURDENSOME BIDEN-ERA REGULATIONS

  • The Senate voted to overturn “a Biden administration regulation hampering domestic energy production… Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy sponsored the resolution, which sought to repeal a Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) rule handicapping offshore oil and gas production.” Forty-four Senate Democrats voted against overturning the rule. (S.J.Res. 11: Roll Call Vote #92 – 2/25/25; The Daily Caller: Senate Dems Obstruct GOP Effort To Remove Biden’s Handcuffs On American Energy – 2/25/25)
  • The Senate also passed Sen. John Hoeven’s (R-N.D.) resolution to “block implementation of the Biden administration’s Natural Gas Tax,” also known as the methane fee, “which was passed as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, Democrats’ reckless tax-and-spend legislation in 2022.” Every Senate Democrat voted against overturning the rule. (H.J.Res. 35: Roll Call Vote #97 – 2/27/25; Sen. Hoeven: Hoeven, Pfluger Continue Efforts to Block Biden’s Natural Gas Tax, Alleviate Burden on U.S. Domestic Energy Production – 2/4/25)
  • The Senate passed Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) resolution, which overturns a Biden administration rule targeting the cryptocurrency industry that “requires decentralized finance, or DeFi, platforms to report transactions to the government just like stock brokerages do and centralized crypto exchanges soon will.” (H.J.Res. 25: Roll Call Vote #151 – 3/26/25; The Wall Street Journal: Republicans Want to Kill Tax-Reporting Rule for Some Crypto Trades – 1/31/25; Reuters: US Treasury finalizes new crypto tax reporting rules – 6/28/24)
  • The Senate passed Sen. Pete Ricketts’ (R-Neb.) resolution, which overturns a “rule by the CFPB that expanded its authority to supervise fintech apps in the payments space,” which Americans have used for over 13 billion transactions. (S.J.Res. 28: Roll Call Vote #106 – 3/5/25; Axios: Senate votes to overturn IRS' DeFi broker rule – 3/4/25; Reuters: Tech groups sue US CFPB to block rule on payment apps, digital wallets – 1/16/25)
  • The Senate passed Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Chairman Tim Scott’s (R-S.C.) resolution that overturned a Biden-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule capping the overdraft fees that banks can charge. The rule would have “hurt the low-income Americans it is supposed to help” by reducing “banking services that Americans sometimes need in a financial pinch.” (S.J.Res. 18: Roll Call Vote #153 – 3/27/25; The Wall Street Journal: Editorial: Good Night to a Biden Overdraft Rule – 3/27/25)
  • Senate Republicans voted to reverse a Biden rule that “set more stringent standards” for walk-in coolers and freezers. The standards implemented by the Biden rule would raise consumers’ equipment costs by at least $99 million per year. Manufacturers of non-display doors and refrigeration systems would also incur costs of $90 million in order to comply with the rule. (H.J.Res. 24: Roll Call Vote #162 – 4/3/25; The Washington Examiner: House votes to cancel Biden efficiency rules for refrigerators and freezers – 3/27/25; U.S. Federal Register: Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Walk-In Coolers and Walk-In Freezers – 12/23/24)
  • And this week, the Senate passed Sen. Cruz’s resolution repealing a Biden rule regulating water heaters, “which [was] expected to affect between 30 to 40 percent of heaters currently on the market.” (H.J.Res. 20: Roll Call Vote #207 – 4/10/25; The Hill: Cruz resolution seeks to undo delayed water heater efficiency rule – 2/19/25)