--- title: Half the House Members Who Wrote Trump's Tax Law Are Out of Their Jobs After Tuesday's Vote description: Four Republicans lost their seats on the influential Ways and Means Committee after the midterms, and more plan to retire by year's end. authors: - name: Alix Langone url: https://money.com/author/alix-langone/ at_money_since: 2018 articles: 187 covers: - Economy and Politics - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Personal Finance - Pets - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology former_staff: true published: '2018-11-07T22:32:24.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T11:08:00.000Z' section: Economy and Politics tags: - 2018 Midterm Elections - everyday money - politics word_count: 328 canonical: https://money.com/half-the-house-members-who-wrote-trumps-tax-law-are-out-of-their-jobs-after-tuesdays-vote/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![The House Ways and Means Committee continues its debate over the Republican tax reform package, on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left on bottom row: Rep. Jason T. Smith, R-Mo., and Rep. Tom Rice, R-S.C., and from left on top row are: Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., and Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., the ranking member, Washington, November 8, 2017.](https://img.money.com/2018/11/181107-ways-and-means-committee-peter-roskam.jpg) *The House Ways and Means Committee continues its debate over the Republican tax reform package, on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left on bottom row: Rep. Jason T. Smith, R-Mo., and Rep. Tom Rice, R-S.C., and from left on top row are: Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., and Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., the ranking member, Washington, November 8, 2017.* On Tuesday, voters handed Democrats the House of Representatives — and may have also rendered a verdict on President Trump's signature tax cuts. The House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees taxes and trade, saw four of its Republican members lose their seats. Those four defeats come after five other Republicans on the committee already left mid-term or decided to retire. With three more committee members running for other offices, come January, half of the 24 Republicans who wrote the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will no longer be in Congress. Those tax cuts, designed to create jobs, have widely been viewed as President Trump's signature legislative achievement. Nonetheless, their emphasis on business taxes tended to [favor the wealthy over the middle-class](https://money.com/gop-tax-bill-middle-class/) — and [proved broadly unpopular](https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/poll-gop-tax-law-656387) in the run-up to Tuesday's election. To be sure, some of the Republican tax-cut authors are leaving Washington on a high note. Kristi Noem won the election to become South Dakota's first female governor. However, the two other committee members who left Congress to seek other offices, Diane Black and James Renacci, both lost their races. The four men who lost their seats Tuesday night were vocal supporters of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act [on the campaign trail](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-07/salt-cap-comes-back-to-haunt-as-key-gop-tax-writers-lose-bids) over the course of the year. Dean Heller, R-NV, was the sole Republican loss on the Senate Finance Committee, while one Democrat, Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. lost her seat on that committee. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. will be the second Democrat to lose his Finance committee seat if he fails to overtake incumbent Gov. Rick Scott in a potential Florida Senate recount. ## Here is the complete list of Republicans who are out at the Ways and Means Committee: **Lost seats:** Peter Roskam (chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Tax Policy) Erik Paulsen Carlos Curbelo Mike Bishop **Retiring:** Lynn Jenkins Sam Johnson David Reichart **Ran For Other Office:** Diane Black Kristi Noem James Renacci **Left Midterm:** Patrick Meehan Pat Tiberi ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/half-the-house-members-who-wrote-trumps-tax-law-are-out-of-their-jobs-after-tuesdays-vote/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Economy and Politics", "item": "https://money.com/economy-and-politics/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Elections", "item": "https://money.com/elections/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Half the House Members Who Wrote Trump's Tax Law Are Out of Their Jobs After Tuesday's Vote" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/half-the-house-members-who-wrote-trumps-tax-law-are-out-of-their-jobs-after-tuesdays-vote/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/half-the-house-members-who-wrote-trumps-tax-law-are-out-of-their-jobs-after-tuesdays-vote/", "name": "Half the House Members Who Wrote Trump's Tax Law Are Out of Their Jobs After Tuesday's Vote", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2018-11-07T22:32:24.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/half-the-house-members-who-wrote-trumps-tax-law-are-out-of-their-jobs-after-tuesdays-vote/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/half-the-house-members-who-wrote-trumps-tax-law-are-out-of-their-jobs-after-tuesdays-vote/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-17T11:08:00.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Half the House Members Who Wrote Trump's Tax Law Are Out of Their Jobs After Tuesday's Vote", "articleSection": "Economy and Politics", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2018/11/181107-ways-and-means-committee-peter-roskam.jpg", "width": 4444, "height": 2963, "caption": "181107-ways-and-means-committee-peter-roskam" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alix Langone", "url": "https://money.com/author/alix-langone/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/alix-langone/#author" } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2018-11-07T22:32:24.000Z", "description": "Four Republicans lost their seats on the influential Ways and Means Committee after the midterms, and more plan to retire by year's end.", "abstract": "Four Republicans lost their seats on the influential Ways and Means Committee after the midterms, and more plan to retire by year's end.", "@id": "https://money.com/half-the-house-members-who-wrote-trumps-tax-law-are-out-of-their-jobs-after-tuesdays-vote/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-04-17T11:08:00.000Z", "wordCount": 328, "keywords": [ "2018 Midterm Elections", "everyday money", "politics" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Political economy", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_economy" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Election", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election" ] } ] } ] } ```