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Kevin Hern: “We need to fix all these waterfalls at all, you know, these…”

Featuring: Kevin Hern, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 1st Congressional District

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One Big Beautiful Bill's Impact w/ Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK) | Hill Nation Summit 2025

Published | Video Starts at 05:25

He's bringing businesses back to America. That's why it's such a populous. I think it is an American idea. You create jobs so people can work, not be dependent on the government. And We need to fix all these waterfalls at all, you know, these cliffs where people, if they make a dollar more, which is the way you do this, that you lose $2 in benefits. We need to have more of a smoothing out of these benefits. We need to help people nudge them off the benefit programs. We shouldn't measure success by how many people we get on. (05:25–05:36)

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Asserts that current benefit systems penalize people for earning slightly more by reducing benefits disproportionately.

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