{"id":7255,"date":"2025-03-13T15:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T15:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-taps-boeing-exec-curtis-beaulieu-as-top-tax-adviser\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T15:18:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T15:18:43","slug":"johnson-taps-boeing-exec-curtis-beaulieu-as-top-tax-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-taps-boeing-exec-curtis-beaulieu-as-top-tax-adviser\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson taps Boeing exec Curtis Beaulieu as top tax adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/242539\" data-person-id=\"242539\">Mike Johnson<\/a> is naming Boeing official Curtis Beaulieu his top tax adviser, sources familiar with the decision say, filling a big hole on his staff as a sprawling fight in Congress over the tax code begins to heat up.<\/p>\n<p>Beaulieu, a senior director at Boeing, will replace Derek Theurer, who left for the Treasury Department \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/2025\/03\/top-gop-leaders-hit-by-brain-drain-as-tax-discussions-enter-a-critical-phase-00213403\" target=\"_blank\">part of a recent wave of Republican tax aides to leave<\/a> Blue Light News, even as lawmakers begin to zero in on what to do about some 40 temporary tax provisions slated to expire at the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Beaulieu, who will start Monday, has been at Boeing for a number of years but has previously worked on Blue Light News. He was tax counsel at the Senate Finance Committee a decade ago and, before that, worked for several Republican lawmakers, including former Rep. Jim McCrery (R-La.), whose district is now represented by Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Beaulieu returns to Blue Light News at a critical time, with lawmakers deeply divided over how to approach the looming expiration of some $4 trillion in tax cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers\u2019 tax advisers play a huge, if often unnoticed, role in developing tax legislation \u2014 trying to figure out how much different options would cost, educating colleagues about the issues and negotiating deals behind closed doors. Lawmakers frequently give them broad discretion to sort out the details of proposals, especially if they are complicated.<\/p>\n<p>There are myriad ways, for example, that lawmakers could design President Donald Trump\u2019s proposals to exempt taxes on things like tips and overtime pay, and lawmakers will rely on staffers\u2019 expertise to help decide on the best approach. <\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s proposals could cost anywhere between $300 billion and $4 trillion depending on how they\u2019re designed, Senate Finance Chair <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/51173\" data-person-id=\"51173\">Mike Crapo<\/a> (R-Idaho) said Wednesday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson is naming Boeing official Curtis Beaulieu his top tax adviser, sources familiar with the decision say, filling a big hole on his staff as a sprawling fight in Congress over the tax code begins to heat up. Beaulieu, a senior director at Boeing, will replace Derek Theurer, who left for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}