Legislative Blog
J.B. Williams, J.D.
One Big Beautiful Bill passed
A Blog about One Big Beautiful Bill
A Bit of Background
The following backgrounds help summarize the author's views on both the general topic: Federal and more specifically One Big Beautiful Bill as it relates to that topic.
Brief Summary of Federal
This should be a fairly limited bills area for management the overall structures like highways, military, federal buildings, federal laws, and the like. However it has become the micro manager of all micro managers. They get involved in areas that no federal government should be involved in, and shift more power upward. This has led to each party trying to run over the other party in the eyes of the voters, all the while doing everything possible to maintain their power. They do this by holding onto all of the money, and claiming they know best how it should be spent. But they run debts so badly that no one should be looking to them as an example of anything other than the way to overspend and go further into debt.
Summary of One Big Beautiful Bill
In this subtopic I plan to breakdown the current One Big Beautiful Bill that passed the House and now is in the Senate. This will be subject to change should the bill move forward modified. I'm trying to focus on taxes and health care, but don't want to neglect the massive spending.
Blog Summary
This bill was 1,118 pages long, including outline. Text of the bill begins on page 15. The Final signed into law bill is 331 pages, including outline and blank page 1. Text of the bill begins on page 10.
One Big Beautiful Bill passed
Published: 2025-10-31
There is a Subtitle A covering Nutrition. The sections have been re-named and modifications appear to have been made. Previously need 14 pages, final had 6.
Subtitle B was previously called Investment in Rural America. The final bill calls Subtitle B Forestry. However, this is a few sentences, and what was previously under Subtitle B has become Subtitle C and called Commodities. This title makes more sense since it was dealing with crop pricing. Also a Subtitle D was added for Disaster Assistance Program. This seemed to have been previously shoved into the Investment in Rural America portion. And Subtitle E, Crop Insurance also covers information previously in Subtitle B. And the final bill goes on to have a Subtitle F for Additional Investments in Rural America. So I'm not sure what was removed nor added but it seems to have been more directed in how it was listed out.
Title II for both is Committee on Armed Services. Original bill covered the various appropriations over 36 pages. New bill covers the appropriations over 13 pages. It could have the same appropriations with less levels of direction, but perhaps that is something I can see in another blog.
Title III in the original was Committee on Education and Workforce at 101 pages. This covered amounts for loans, repayments, forgiveness, etc. (This is an area I believe the Federal government, and for that matter State governments, should remain outside of. This should be left up to banks and loan organizations to determine loans. Otherwise the government loans money to people to get a degree in which there are few to no jobs, and the individual is then burdened by a large loan. I'm not saying those degrees cannot be helpful overall but they do not directly lead to work in the field of study.) Title III in the final bill is Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. It is a short 1 page addition.
Title IV in the original was Energy and Commerce at 204 pages. Title IV in the final bill is Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation at 10 pages. So there is some overlap, albiet very small overlap it appears. The final bill also has a Title V that is Committee on Energy and Natural Resources at 18 pages. As well as Title VI Committee on Environment and Public Works at 4 pages. So it total the final bill has 32 pages of items covering what the prior bill did in 204, obviously with areas not covered in the final bill.
Title V in the original bill was Committee on Financial Services which correlates to the final bills Title VII Finance. The original bill did this in 4 pages, the final bill took 176 pages. It begins on page 87, and I will be dedicating a blog to this section. It does seem to cover some items previously covered in other titles of the original bill.
Title VIII in the final bill is the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions at 24 pages. It seems to overlap a few prior titles in the original bill.
Title VI in the original bill was Committee on Homeland Security at 9 pages. Title IX in the final bill is Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Foreign Affairs at 5 pages.
Title VII in the original bill was Committee on the Judiciary at 95 pages. Title X in the final bill is Committee on the Judiciary at 33 pages.
Title VIII in the original bill was Committee on Natural Resources at 125 pages. Title IX in the original bill was Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at 18 pages. Title X in the original bill was Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure at 21 pages. Title XI in the original bill was Committee on Ways and Means, The One, Big, Beautiful Bill at 388 pages.
It seems they removed items, consolidated some in different manners. I will be working through the items, hopefully focusing first on the finance portion since it applies to taxes and would most likely be of more interest to more individuals. Plus, to be honest, I'm very interested to see what the changes are and how they will affect my situation. I'm hoping to have a greater ability to deduct from income and still not have to pay the federal government during retirement. I feel like my spouse and I have paid in substantial funds to the government during our working careers and there was a great deal of waste. Now that we are both more or less in retirement, as our 'jobs' are not generating their own income, I prefer to keep the funds I earn on investments for us.
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