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| Mr. Speaker, I read the bill too, and I want to know why Jeff Bezos and multi-millionaires and billionaires are getting tax cuts. | ||
| Last night I offered an amendment to let Trump's tax cuts expire only for people earning more than a billion dollars a year. | ||
| And every single Republican voted against it. | ||
| I mean, what's that all about? | ||
| Follow the money. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I now yield one minute to the gentleman from Mississippi, the distinguished ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security, Mr. Thompson. | ||
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Gentlemen's recognized for one minute. | |
| Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, and I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for the time. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, Republicans are openly bragging about how the bill kicks children and the elderly off Medicaid, nutritional assistance, and more, all to pay another tax break for wealthy Republican donors. | ||
| But my Republican colleagues are not talking about the trillions and trillions of dollars their political giveaway is going to cost. | ||
| In fact, Mr. Speaker, Vice President Vance has said historic levels of Homeland Security funding in the bill sweetens the deal for the devil. | ||
| This bill means billions of American tax dollars to build a wall Trump promised Mexico would pay for. | ||
| Billions of dollars for mask ICE agents to terrorize immigrant families who've been contributing to our country for decades, including law-abiding Marines and even American kids. | ||
| And billions of dollars for DHS to continue obstructing Congress and denying due process to legal immigrants. | ||
| My Republican colleagues may be fooled by one big ugly bill, but the American people are not. | ||
| I urge my colleagues to vote no on the rule and the underlying bill, and I yield back. | ||
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Gentleman from North Carolina. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I yield two and a half minutes. | ||
| The gentleman from Missouri, Mr. Alford. | ||
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Gentlemen, recognized for three and one-half minutes. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Thank you, Madam Chair, for your work on this. | ||
| I raise today in support of the rule and in strong support of H.R. 1, President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act. | ||
| Today, Mr. Speaker, we face a watershed moment for the American people. | ||
| This Republican majority was given a clear mandate by the American people, the America First Agenda. | ||
| This bill is our opportunity to deliver on that agenda. | ||
| H.R. 1 stops the largest tax increase in U.S. history while providing the largest tax cut for working and middle-class families ever. | ||
| With no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and tax breaks for seniors, HR1 protects the 87,000 Missouri farms and countless family-owned small businesses from double taxation by expanding the death tax exemption. | ||
| The One Big Beautiful Bill reverses four years, four long years of Biden's open border policies with a generational investment in border security, including funding to complete phase two of the border wall. | ||
| The One Big Beautiful bill modernizes our armed forces for 21st century threats by properly preparing our military and funding the Golden Dome. | ||
| HR1 ends the progressive Left's War on America energy by unleashing domestic oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy production, lowering energy costs, ensuring reliable and stable energy sources, and renewing not just energy independence, but making us energy dominant once again. | ||
| Finally, HR1 restores fiscal sanity by cutting almost $2 trillion in federal spending, rescinding billions in green news scam funding, and eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse from numerous federal programs. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, this is a time for choosing. | ||
| We can choose to side with the illegal aliens, unelected road bureaucrats, and fear-mongering from the America left, or we can choose to side with the American people and deliver on the mandate that they gave us back in November. | ||
| I urge my colleagues to put America first, support the rule, and pass the one big, beautiful bill. | ||
| And I yield back. | ||
| Gentleman yields back. | ||
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, cult much. | ||
| You know, I mean, that gentleman's poster says it all. | ||
| It's not about American families. | ||
| It's about one big party for Trump. | ||
| It's about swelling up his ego. | ||
| I now yield one minute to the gentlewoman from California, Speaker Ms. Pelosi. | ||
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Thank you very much, Mr. Gentlewoman's recognized for how much? | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| One minute. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
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Thank you for your leadership, Mr. McGovern. | |
| The gentleman just ended by saying to vote for this big, beautiful bill. | ||
| This big, beautiful bill? | ||
| Well, if beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then you, GOP, you have a very blurred vision of what America is about. | ||
| Is it beautiful to cut off food from seniors and children? | ||
| Is it beautiful to cut off 17 million people from health care? | ||
| Is it beautiful to do this to give tax cuts to billionaires in our country? | ||
| Is it beautiful to take money from education and the rest? | ||
| The list goes on and on. | ||
| Dr. King, nearly 60 years ago, said, of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death. | ||
| We come to this floor with the moral force of Dr. King's words in our heart. | ||
| Let us not, with this bill, turn the American dream he talked about in a nightmare for America's seniors, the disabled, our children, our children, our children. | ||
| Let us vote no on this shameful bill and throw a punch for the children. | ||
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Gentlemen's time has expired. | |
| Gentleman from North Carolina. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I reserve. | ||
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Gentlemen, Reserve, gentlemen from Massachusetts. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute to the distinguished gentlewoman from California, the distinguished ranking member of the Committee on Financial Services, Ms. Waters. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| This big, ugly bill straps health care from 17 million Americans, shutters hospitals, and will starve 12 million people by taking away their food stamps. | ||
| These cuts add up to $1.3 trillion, the exact costs of the tax cut Republicans are handing out to the richest 1% of Americans. | ||
| But that's not all. | ||
| The entire bill will add a whooping $3.3 trillion to our nation's $35 trillion debt. | ||
| So much for Republicans being the party of fiscal responsibility. | ||
| They're also gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that returned $21 billion to families cheated by mega banks. | ||
| They're cutting housing funds during an affordability crisis and weakening oversight of Wall Street. | ||
| Maybe they've forgotten that the people elected them, not Trump, are the billionaire class. | ||
| And Mr. Speaker and members, it'll be a cold day in hell before we let Republicans get away with this. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
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Gentleman from North Carolina. | |
| I reserve, Mr. Speaker. | ||
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Gentleman Reserve, gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| Mrs. If I can inquire the gentlelady, if she doesn't have many speakers, maybe she can lend us some time because we have a ton. | ||
| Nice try, Mr. McGovern. | ||
| In Congress, we can measure how much people really believe in their position by whether they're willing to come and join their leaders on the House floor. | ||
| Well, I count four members on the Republican side, and we've got over 75 over here. | ||
| But if I were them, I wouldn't want to be associated with this bill either. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I'm going to urge we defeat the previous question. | ||
| And if we do, I'll offer an amendment to the rule to consider amendment number 156, offered by Leader Jeffries, which strikes all provisions that would cause millions of Americans to lose health care and food assistance. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I ask your unanimous consent to insert the text of my amendment into the record along with any extraneous material immediately prior to the vote on the previous question. | ||
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Without objection. | |
| And Mr. Speaker, to discuss that proposal, I yield two minutes to the gentleman from New York, Mr. Casio-Cortez. | ||
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Gentleman was recognized for two minutes. | |
| Thank you, and I thank the Chairman. | ||
| You know, President Trump had issued some statements throughout this process saying and urging, insisting that this bill does not cut Medicaid. | ||
| He's also said some things. | ||
| You know, he says he doesn't think I'm too much of a smart person. | ||
| And I'll tell you one thing. | ||
| It doesn't take a smart person to know if you're being lied to. | ||
| President Trump, you're either being lied to or you are lying to the American people because this bill represents in the text of this bill the largest and greatest loss of health care in American history. | ||
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17 million Americans will lose their health care on this bill, not undocumented people, not quote unquote the disgusting term illegal, but 17 million Americans will have their health care cut from this bill. | |
| On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam of that text, a little bit of the fine print there. | ||
| The cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the United States while taking away their SNAP, while taking away their Medicaid, while kicking them off of the ACA and their health care extensions. | ||
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So if you're at home and you're living off tips, you do the math. | |
| Is that worth it to you? | ||
| Losing all your health care, not able to feed your babies, not being able to put a diaper on their bottom in exchange for what? | ||
| This bill is a deal with the devil. | ||
| It explodes our national debt. | ||
| It militarizes our entire economy and it strips away health care and basic dignity of the American people for what? | ||
| To give Elon Musk a tax break and billionaires the greedy taking of our nation. | ||
| We cannot stand for it and we will not support it. | ||
| You should be ashamed. | ||
| Members are reminded not to engage in personalities toward the president. | ||
| And members are reminded to direct their remarks to the chair. | ||
| Gentlewoman from North Carolina. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I now yield one minute to the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Nels. | ||
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Gentleman is recognized for one minute. | |
| Mr. Speaker, I rise to discuss an important provision in the big, beautiful bill. | ||
| I was proud to introduce the Endowment Tax Fairness Act, which would tax the endowment profits of private elite universities at 21%, raising an estimated, listen to me, $70 to $100 billion over 10 years. | ||
| The Senate gutted this provision and reduced it to under $1 billion annually to protect elite universities that take hundreds of millions of dollars annually in federal tax dollars. | ||
| We were given instructions to generate revenue to pay for President Trump's wonderful priorities. | ||
| Folks, we're not taxing the endowment itself. | ||
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Harvard has $53 billion. | |
| We're not taxing that. | ||
| We're just going to tax the net earnings on their investments at 21%, which was equal to the corporate tax rate. | ||
| And what did the Senate do? | ||
| They reduced it to 8%, just under 8%. | ||
| It is about time that we get these universities to pay the same that corporate America pays. | ||
| And with that, I yield back. | ||
| Coming yells back, gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| I yield one minute to the gentleman from Florida, Ms. Wasserman Schultz. | ||
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Gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I rise to oppose this vile Republican plunder of working families, seniors, and veterans. | ||
| All so the richest Americans can be showered with even more wealth. | ||
| This billionaire bailout would strip health care coverage from 17 million Americans, nearly 2 million in my state of Florida. | ||
| It will push millions into crowded, costly emergency rooms and saddle them with medical debt. | ||
| Trump's big, ugly bill also steals record food assistance from millions of kids, seniors, and veterans. | ||
| It makes cancer screenings and prenatal care harder to get by defunding Planned Parenthood. | ||
| It cripples solar and wind projects and kills millions of clean, green manufacturing and construction jobs. | ||
| All so the rich can get huge tax breaks. | ||
| And no family is unscathed because this bill also blows up the national debt by $4 trillion, which drives up interest rates on car loans and mortgages and triggers billions in Medicare cuts, cutting health care for our seniors. | ||
| This bill makes life less affordable, more painful, and instead of uplifting lives, it will end them. | ||
| When history looks back on this bill, its legacy will be Trump lied and people died. | ||
| Vote no. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
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Chair would remind members once again not to engage in personalities toward the president. | |
| Gentlewoman from North Carolina. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I reserve. | ||
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Gentleman reserves. | |
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute to the gentleman from Rhode Island, Mr. Megazino. | ||
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Gentleman's recognized for one minute. | |
| When we say that the Republican Party has turned into a cult, this is what we mean. | ||
| Our Republican colleagues are pushing a bill that would throw their constituents under the bus, a bill that flies in the face of everything they claim to stand for, all because Donald Trump wants a bill-signing photo up by the 4th of July. | ||
| Our Republican colleagues know that this bill will cost 17 million Americans their health insurance. | ||
| They know that nursing homes in their own districts will have to close down. | ||
| They know that under this bill, $5 trillion of debt are being added that will be paid for by my children and your children and their children for generations to come so that today's billionaires can get a tax break. | ||
| They know that this bill is unpopular and many of their vulnerable members will lose re-election over it. | ||
| But the cult leader has decided he wants his photo up on July 4th and our Kool-Aid drinking colleagues are going along with it. | ||
| They know this is wrong. | ||
| They still have a chance to do right by their constituents and their convictions. | ||
| Vote no on this bill. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
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Gentleman from North Carolina. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I yield two minutes to the very distinguished gentleman from South Carolina, Mr. Wilson. | ||
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Gentlemen's recognized for two minutes. | |
| Thank you very much, Chairwoman Virginia Fox of North Carolina. | ||
| And indeed, Republicans were elected last November with promises made, promises kept. | ||
| And despite the extraordinarily ignorant lies on the other side, the American people know that the bill that we'll be voting on today reduces taxes, creating jobs. | ||
| It's the elimination of taxes on tips and overtime. | ||
| It provides for securing the border. | ||
| It provides for energy independence. | ||
| It provides for the ability of having peace through strength. | ||
| All of this is in the bill. | ||
| And then compassion. | ||
| It's not compassion if you support programs that are ultimately going to fail. | ||
| But Republicans want people who need assistance to receive the assistance. | ||
| We already know Margaret Thatcher has identified what they're proposing, and that is socialism will work until you run out spending other people's money. | ||
| They are putting the poor people of America at risk. | ||
| We're the ones of compassion. | ||
| Additionally, with the promises made, promises kept by Donald Trump. | ||
| I've lived it. | ||
| I led the delegation to move the delegation, the embassy, from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. | ||
| He did that. | ||
| People said you shouldn't do it, the State Department, because it leads to dislocation. | ||
| No. | ||
| It led to the embassy being in Jerusalem and it led to the Abraham Accords. | ||
| We know last week the President was advised do not bomb Iran. | ||
| It will lead to World War III. | ||
| No. | ||
| It has led to a ceasefire and the ability of having an Abraham Accords extended to other countries, including Syria. | ||
| And I'm really grateful that Lindsey Graham was such an advisor. | ||
| The President acted despite the naysayers that we have all around us. | ||
| I just appreciate Donald Trump. | ||
| Promises made, promises kept. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
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Gentleman yields back. | |
| Gentlemen from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute to the gentleman from New York, Mr. Kennedy. | ||
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Gentleman's recognized for one minute. | |
| Thank you, Ranking Member McGovern. | ||
| I'm an occupational therapist. | ||
| I helped people live the fullest life they could, given the cards they were dealt. | ||
| I worked at a school for children with disabilities in a nursing home, helping seniors maintain their independence. | ||
| I know exactly what it means to cut a trillion dollars from Medicare, Medicaid, and Affordable Care Act, which is exactly what this big, ugly bill does. | ||
| Taking away health care for 17 million Americans won't make us any healthier. | ||
| Stealing food away from the neediest children, seniors, and veterans won't make us any stronger. | ||
| Giving billionaires a tax break won't make us any richer. | ||
| Children will go hungry. | ||
| Seniors will lose their health care. | ||
| Students will lose their financial aid. | ||
| Hospitals will close. | ||
| Americans will die. | ||
| I urge my Republican colleagues to stand up, grow a spine, stop bowing down to your King Donald Trump, represent your constituents like you were elected to do, and vote no on this horrible, big, ugly bill. | ||
| I yield back. | ||
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For the third time, the chair would remind members not to engage in personalities toward the president, or they will be called out of order. | |
| Gentlewoman from North Carolina. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, the House is not in order. | ||
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In order. | |
| house will be in order. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Gentlewoman from North Carolina. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Our reserve. | ||
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Gentlewoman Reserve. | |
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, if there are no other Republican members willing to speak for this bill, we can send some members over to you just to state the facts as to what's in this bill. | ||
| Let's do the public a service. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I now yield one minute to the gentleman from Maryland, Mr. Orshewski. | ||
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Gentleman's recognized for one minute. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| I rise today to remind my colleagues that this bill is more than words on paper. | ||
| The policies we're debating today have real impacts on real people. | ||
| People like four-year-old Amir Rich, who visited my office earlier this month. | ||
| Amir was born at just two pounds and spent 452 days in the hospital. | ||
| Today, although he still depends on feeding tubes and oxygen tanks, he is thriving. | ||
| He's walking and able to speak. | ||
| He lit up my office with energy. | ||
| And that's thanks to the care he received under Medicaid. | ||
| Christina was forced to leave her 16-year career in corrections to become his full-time caregiver, placing a significant financial strain on their family. | ||
| In the face of rising costs for American families, Medicaid has become a vital lifeline, helping to cover the kind of care Amir needs. | ||
| The bill before us guts these lifelines like Medicaid and CHIP. | ||
| These programs cover nearly half of all American children's. | ||
| For families like Christina and Amir, today's vote is a matter of life and death. | ||
| I encourage my colleagues to look at Amir, look at him, and oppose this reckless bill. | ||
| Protect the vital support systems that serve millions of Americans. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I yield. | ||
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Gentleman from North Carolina. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I yield one minute to the gentleman from Utah, Mr. Kennedy. | ||
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Gentlemen, I can ask for one minute. | |
| Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| It's a pleasure to be here and speak in favor of the rule for the Big Beautiful bill. | ||
| As a provider of health care myself, as a doctor, and as a recipient of Medicaid services, my first three children were born on Medicaid. | ||
| In addition to the fact that as a child I was receiving food assistance not only from free school lunch programs but church programs, recognizing the vital need associated with Medicaid as well as with these food programs, we need to right-size these programs. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, if we don't take a different trajectory, these programs will collapse under the economic failures of prior administrations. | ||
| The reality behind this is these bills, this bill that we're discussing today, it is insisting on work requirements associated with the recipient of Medicaid. | ||
| If you are an able-bodied working adult, you should be able to go out and find a job. | ||
| If you can't find a job, you need to go to a training program and try to find training so that you can get a job and ultimately get off Medicaid. | ||
| One of the components about Medicaid, we all know it was formed in favor of pregnant women, disabled people, as well as the elderly. | ||
| And what the Republicans are trying to do is right-size the Medicaid program so that it survives for the long-term, the vital needs of the people of the future. | ||
| With that, Mr. Speaker, thank you for the time and I yield back. | ||
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Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| If you can't find a job, just enroll in a training program. | ||
| Well, that's hard to do when Republicans are cutting and gutting the training programs that exist in this country. | ||
| I now yield one minute to the gentlewoman from Texas, Ms. Johnson. | ||
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Gentlemen, I can ask for one minute. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| You know, I've been listening to this debate, and I am struck by the appalling ability of the members of the other side who are so afraid of this president. | ||
| They are willing to lie to the American people because they fear the tweet of a president more than they fear the wrath of the voters at the ballot box. | ||
| This will come to roost because 17 million people are going to lose their health care. | ||
| And in Texas, we're one of the largest creators of clean energy jobs. | ||
| Texas is the energy state. | ||
| I'm proud to be an energy state. | ||
| We have vast amounts of oil and gas jobs, but we also are the largest creator of clean energy jobs. | ||
| And we will lose millions of employment in our state because Republicans of this delegation are going to vote for this bill. | ||
| And in response to Representative Nels, I'm a proud graduate of the University of Texas. | ||
| I think Texas A ⁇ M and our elite University of Texas deserves to have the funding in our universities. | ||
| With this bill, we must vote it down. | ||
| And I condemn the Republicans in the state of Texas who are going to harm our state with their support of this bill. | ||
| And with that, I yield back. | ||
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Gentlewoman from North Carolina. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I reserve. | ||
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Gentlemen, reserve, gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| Wow, okay. | ||
| I yield one minute to the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Castro. | ||
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Gentlemen, Jack and Ash for one minute. | |
| Three years ago today, I was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. | ||
| That day, my youngest child, my daughter, turned two months old. | ||
| There's a drug that I have to take every month, every 28 days. | ||
| And the first time I saw the bill for that, the list price on that drug was $24,000 per injection. | ||
| For people that don't have insurance or Medicaid or aren't covered, they're not getting that shot. | ||
| They're not going to survive, some of them. | ||
| This is a choice for some of you between your career and saving people's lives. | ||
| There are so many folks who have reached out over the last several months, panicking about their disabled children, about their senior citizen parents who are in nursing homes, people struggling with cancer, Alzheimer's, dementia, sickle cell, diabetes, all of these illnesses. | ||
| You have the power today to make sure that they can live with dignity and stay alive, or you can choose your career. | ||
| That is your choice. | ||
| We choose to keep people alive. | ||
| We choose to have health care in this country. | ||
| We refuse to cut health care for 17 million people and 1.6 million people in Texas because it's wrong and it's immoral and we can take a different course. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield two minutes to the gentleman from Washington, Mr. Baumgartner. | ||
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Gentlemen, Jack and Ashtra, two minutes. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I rise in strong support of the Big Beautiful Bill. | ||
| At its heart, the Big Beautiful Bill is a measure that will make America both wealthier and safer. | ||
| And I'm inspired in thinking about the Big Beautiful Bill of not only this president, but two of my favorite former presidents. | ||
| The first would be President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who realized, who realized, getting the appropriate quote, who realized the negative impacts of high-tech tax rates. | ||
| Indeed, roughly 60 years ago, President Kennedy warned the largest single barrier to full employment of our manpower and resources and to a higher rate of economic growth is the unrealistic, heavy drag of federal income taxes on private purchasing power, initiative, and incentive. | ||
| And indeed, I have little doubt that President Kennedy would be a big fan of the Big Beautiful Bill. | ||
| Similarly, President Reagan realized peace through strength was how America could defeat the Communist Soviet Union. | ||
| And he realized how missile defense was key to facing up from the challenge of the communists. | ||
| Today, the Big Beautiful Bill puts much-needed funding into missile defense through the Golden Dome system. | ||
| And I encourage every American that cares about making our country wealthier and safer to support the Big Beautiful Bill. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute to the gentleman from Michigan, Ms. Stevens. | ||
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| Mr. Speaker, this bill makes me sick to my stomach. | ||
| I have met with over 200 manufacturers in my district, and the one thing I hear over and over again is the cost of everything is going up. | ||
| And now this administration is yet again trying to raise prices on working Michiganders. | ||
| This bill in Michigan will kick 750,000 people off of their Medicaid. | ||
| It will eliminate critical investments in Michigan manufacturing. | ||
| It means for Michiganders the costs will continue to go up and up and up. | ||
| And as someone who served as the chief of staff on the U.S. auto rescue in the Obama administration, I know what it means to see Michiganders struggling. | ||
| I know what it means when Michiganders have to choose between paying their bills and paying for life-saving health care, all while billionaires get a tax cut. | ||
| This bill, Mr. Speaker, makes me sick to my stomach, and I urge everyone to vote no. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Gentlelady from North Carolina. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I reserve. | ||
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Gentlelady from North Carolina Reserves. | |
| Gentleman from Massachusetts. | ||
| I feel the excitement on the other side of the aisle. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute to the gentlewoman from Ohio, Ms. Sykes. | ||
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| Thank you, Mr. Speaker. | ||
| I rise today to oppose this terrible bill that is a bad deal for Ohio and the residents of Ohio's 13th congressional district and the people of the United States of America. | ||
| When I was first elected, I told the people of Ohio's 13th congressional district that it may be my name on the ballot, but when I win, we are all going to Washington together. | ||
| I made that promise because as a representative of my district, it is my responsibility to make sure my constituents' needs are being addressed here in Washington. | ||
| The people in Ohio's 13th congressional district need lower costs. | ||
| The people in Ohio's 13th congressional district need access to care. | ||
| The people in Ohio's 13th district need opportunity, opportunity to work, to buy a house, to live their American dream. | ||
| But this bill does none of that. | ||
| Instead, it kicks 17 million people off of their health care and makes life more expensive. | ||
| People don't have extra money to pay. | ||
| The gentleman will state his inquiry. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, my understanding is that House Republicans have kept this vote open longer than any other Congress in the history of the House of Representatives. | ||
| At what point will the Speaker ascertain as to whether this practice is violative of Rule 17 with respect to the order of the House or Rule 20 with respect to the voting procedures of the House? | ||
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What the Chair would tell the gentleman from Colorado is that once again, as I said a few hours ago, the Chairman, the presiding officer is not a historian and so therefore cannot opine as to whether or not a historical precedent is in order or whether this will be a condition of the House going forward. | |
| It's whether or not it was violative of Rule 17 or Rule 20 for Republicans to keep this vote open longer than any other Congress in the history of the United States House of Representatives. | ||
| We know for certain that this, in fact, is a new precedent that has been broken by Republicans. | ||
| This is the longest. | ||
| Yes, Mr. Speaker. | ||
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To the gentleman from Colorado, as was stated again several hours ago, the rule provides for a minimum time for voting, not a maximum time for voting. | |
| So that minimum time obviously is part of that rule. | ||
| So besides that, the chair doesn't have any other information that he could share with the gentleman from Colorado that would be useful in this discussion. | ||
| I thank the Speaker. | ||
| I conclude simply by saying, Mr. Speaker, is it permissible under the rules for this vote to be held open for 24 hours, 48 hours, three months? | ||
| How long, in the Speaker's judgment, is it permissible to hold the vote? | ||
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Gentleman is opposing hypotheticals and is prepared to move on the vote that we're currently in, and so therefore the conversation ends. | |
| I thank the Speaker. | ||
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Members move in. | |
| On this vote, the yeas are 2-20, the nays are 2-12. | ||
| The amendment is adopted. | ||
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The question is on adoption of the resolution as amended. | |
| Those in favor say aye. | ||
| Those opposed, no. | ||
| In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. | ||
| Mr. Speaker. | ||
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Gentleman from Massachusetts. | |
| I will have to insist on asking for the yeas and nays. | ||
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Yays and nays are requested. | |
| Those favoring a vote by the yays and nays will rise. | ||
| Special number having risen, the yays and nays are ordered. | ||
| Members will record their votes by electronic device. | ||
| The chair will remind everyone in the House: this is a five-minute vote. | ||
| A vote here to approve debate rules for Republican tax and spending cuts legislation, which President Trump calls the one big beautiful bill. | ||
| It would permanently extend expiring individual and business tax cuts enacted in 2017 by the previous Trump administration. | ||
| It appropriates $153 billion for defense, $89 billion for immigration enforcement, and nearly $90 billion for border security. | ||
| The legislation also raises the statutory debt limit by $5 trillion and makes cuts to Medicaid and food stamp programs. | ||
| Republican leaders in both the House and Senate have been working hard to deliver the bill ahead of the July 4th deadline President Trump has set, which is this Friday. | ||
| Speaker Johnson continues to meet with a number of Republican holdouts, including members of the House Freedom Caucus, who have also been in meetings at the White House. | ||
| Republicans can only lose a handful of votes with such a slim majority. | ||
| One of the reasons the vote just before this one was held open and action on the floor frozen for several hours. | ||
| The bill passed the Senate Tuesday, 51 to 50, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tiebreaking vote. | ||
| If approved by the House in its current form, it would go to the White House for President Trump's signature. | ||
| However, if the House approves any amendments or changes to the bill, it would need to go back to the Senate for another approval vote. | ||
| I'm Congresswoman Yvette DeClark, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and proud representative of New York's 9th Congressional District, located in central and southwest Brooklyn. | ||
| I want to say thank you to First Vice Chair Carter, Congresswoman Hayes, Congresswoman Moore, and Congresswoman Kelly, as well as all of the members of the Congressional Black Caucus here present for joining me at this critical and pivotal moment for our nation. | ||
| We all know why we're here today. | ||
| We all know that it is to stand in opposition to Donald Trump's one big ugly bill. | ||
| As it turns out, we're not the only ones who have problems with it. | ||
| Only moments ago, Republicans failed to pass the vote they needed to get the big, ugly bill to the House floor. | ||
| They failed because House Republicans are ceaselessly paralyzed by their internal chaos and addiction to dysfunction. | ||
| It's an embarrassment, but I digress. | ||
| So let's discuss the facts. | ||
| If this bill passes through our chamber, then we will see Medicaid ripped for more than 15 million Americans. | ||
| We will see food ripped out of the hands of children through nearly $200 billion in SNAP benefit cuts, which will impact as many as 6 million black children and teens across this nation. | ||
| We will see the deficit balloon by $3.3 trillion. | ||
| That's trillion with a T over the next decade. | ||
| Hospital and health care centers in diverse and rural communities will close. | ||
| 5 million children, 51% of all black children will lose eligibility for the full child tax credit. | ||
| And so many other atrocities that have been hidden within the 1,000-page mega bill will rise out of the woodwork and strike American lives. | ||
| Make no mistake, Trump's bill is going to tear apart the social safety nets millions of Americans depend on just to live, and that pain will not discriminate. | ||
| Black or white, Republican or Democrat, this bill is coming for you and your family. | ||
| And it's a simple truth that contempt for working families is hardwired into the administration's DNA. | ||
| And their budget reflects that with stunning clarity. | ||
| But I assure you, the conscience of the Congress is clear. | ||
| We recognize the villainous budget for what it is, just as we recognize those who support it for the villains they are. | ||
| So do the American people. | ||
| They've called on the House to stop this legislation in its tracks. | ||
| And we can stop it. | ||
| Four Republicans take a stand. | ||
| Let me reiterate, four Republicans out of 220 are all that we need to block the big, ugly bill. | ||
| Unfortunately, I have my doubts that anyone beyond the usual suspects, let alone four Republicans, have the moral or intestinal fortitude necessary to do so. | ||
| We have seen this story play out too many times before. | ||
| And so I am certain we'll find out shortly just how many congressional Republicans would rather steal health care and food aid from millions of Americans, blow up the federal deficit beyond repair, betray every principle they need to stand for those stand for than oppose Donald Trump's will and that of his billionaire donors. | ||
| We will find out how many of them would choose to hurt their communities instead of hurting the president's feelings. | ||
| We'll find out who among them are public servants and who are Donald Trump's servants. | ||
| Well, they may be scared of him, but we are certainly not. | ||
| We are going to the floor and we are going to fight this bill. | ||
| And if it passes, we're going to tell the American people exactly who hurt them. | ||
| It's been a long, long list. | ||
| And with that, it's my honor and privilege to ask the first vice chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Troy Carter of Louisiana, to bring his comments at this time. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, Madam Chair. | ||
| Thank you to all of my courageous colleagues for standing at a time when America needs us most. | ||
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I want to thank you all, press, for joining us. | |
| Thank our illustrious chairwoman for convening us today for this important conversation about Republicans' harmful one big, ugly bill. | ||
| The bottom line is that this legislation will hurt Americans across the country, Republicans and Democrats, but our colleagues don't seem to realize they're not strong enough, bold enough, or bad enough to stand up against Donald Trump, even when it means their own people will suffer. | ||
| How pitiful is that? | ||
| I'm deeply concerned about the devastating impacts this bill will have specifically on Medicaid. | ||
| Medicaid is more than a program. | ||
| It's a lifeline for millions of Americans, children, mothers, and people with disabilities, seniors, and many of whom are black in our community and rely on the essential health coverage that Medicaid provides. | ||
| Yes, this bill threatens to slash Medicaid funding in historic ways, causing irreparable harm. | ||
| Let me be clear. | ||
| This bill is a billionaire's boondoggle. | ||
| The top 0.1% will gain on an average of $309,000 in 2027. | ||
| That's $847 every single day. | ||
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Did I mention that SNAP benefits are only $6 a day? | |
| They get a break of $847 a day. | ||
| Millionaires will see their pockets lined with an average of $96,400 per year. | ||
| Meanwhile, families earning less than $50,000 get a laughable $247 annually, less than $1 a day. | ||
| This tax cut is for billionaires. | ||
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Health care cuts for families. | |
| Billionaires get tax cuts. | ||
| Poor people just get cut. | ||
| What's wrong with that picture? | ||
| The Congressional Budget Office estimates some 17 million Americans will lose their health care because of this ugly bill. | ||
| Medicaid snap and ACA marketplace cuts total $1.3 trillion, the exact amount to enrich those making over $500,000 a year. | ||
| This could have funded and expanded child tax credits, universal family leave, and kept millions insured. | ||
| But the Republicans in this White House chose to lean toward the richest of the rich and to have a reverse Robin Hood, to steal from the poor and give to the rich. | ||
| Yesterday, I introduced a simple amendment to this bill. | ||
| It simply said 100% of any Medicaid savings must be invested back into the program. | ||
| Since my colleagues seem to think that there's so much waste, fraud, and abuse, and we all firmly stand against waste, fraud, and abuse, if you find it, put it back into Medicaid since you say that you want to strengthen the program. | ||
| This money should help children, mothers, seniors, and people with disabilities, not pay for billionaire tax scams. | ||
| But as you might imagine, Republicans shot it down. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Hmm. | ||
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Because they never, ever cared about Medicaid. | |
| They never cared about strengthening the system. | ||
| They never cared about making it better for generations to come. | ||
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They only saw it as a honeypot to find money to give tax breaks to the riches of the rich. | |
| This was the low-hanging fruit in their estimation. | ||
| And poor people once again took it on the chin. | ||
| My Republican colleagues say they want to protect the vulnerable populations and face and fight waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| But this bill rips health care away from the very people Medicaid was intended to serve. | ||
| It will shutter nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and blow up state budgets. | ||
| In my home state of Louisiana, a Republican-led House and Senate passed unanimous resolutions saying this bill will kill Louisiana. | ||
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This is the home of our Speaker. | |
| That's right. | ||
| Our majority leader. | ||
| This is a legislature that the Speaker served in along with me, along with majority leaders, Leader Scaleese. | ||
| We all came out of this very body in Louisiana. | ||
| This body had the wisdom to say, no, this is bad. | ||
| This is bad for all Louisianians and bad for all Americans. | ||
| Wake up. | ||
| Push back. | ||
| Find that intestinal fortitude to do the right thing. | ||
| Donald Trump's big, ugly bill is a betrayal of working people, leaving millions hungry, uninsured, and worst of all, all to fund massive tax breaks for the richest rich. | ||
| We stand here today unified. | ||
| We invite others to join us, just four more, to come and be brave enough to say that my oath of office is to the people and to the Constitution, not to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and not to anyone president. | ||
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We stand firm. | |
| Next, I will bring up Representative Gwen Moore. | ||
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Hello, Gwen. | |
| Thank you so much, Madam Chair and Troy Carter, and all of my colleagues from the Congressional Black Caucus, the conscience of Congress. | ||
| The Republicans have jammed their bill, renamed the Act, because the parliamentarian decided that one big beautiful bill did not meet the guidelines and didn't pass the bird bath, the bird rule. | ||
| Even the parliamentarian realizes that this nomenclature is inappropriate for this big, ugly bill. | ||
| I'm a member of the Ways and Means Committee, so I want to talk to you about the math and the budget gimmicks that they have used to sell this to their caucus and to buoy the lies that they have been telling the public. | ||
| First of all, this bill came back from the United States Senate with $4 trillion worth of debt equaling zero. | ||
| I don't know how I'm going to explain that to my great-grandchildren when I try to teach them math. | ||
| I don't know how I'm going to do it. | ||
| But they've somehow been able to convince their caucus so far that $4 trillion worth of debt is equal to zero so that they can meet the budgetary requirements of this budget resolution. | ||
| I tell you, while they're killing Sesame Street and Big Bird, because all of us and our children who were taught through Sesame Street know better than this, that this math just don't work. | ||
| This bill will add trillions of dollars to the deficit. | ||
| And as a matter of fact, over the past, I would say since the beginning of this century, the debt has primarily occurred because of unpaid for tax cuts. | ||
| Not because we have spent money on taking care of our people, but because of unpaid for tax cuts. | ||
| So, while many of the committee members that you see here on the Energy and Commerce Committee that dealt with Medicaid, you know, on the, and also energy credits, you saw people on the Education Committee deal with their mark. | ||
| Our committee, the Ways and Means Committee, was told to, instead of cutting, they have asked us to add $4.5 trillion to the debt. | ||
| And boy, I'm telling you, Republicans met their mark and turned the American people into their mark. | ||
| Instead of using the trifecta, the House, the presidency, and the Senate to lift up not only low-income workers, but middle-class Americans, Republicans chose to prop up the wealthy. | ||
| And despite the lies that they have told you, the distribution tables prove it. | ||
| That the majority of these dollars go to the most wealthy. | ||
| I'll reiterate some of the numbers, but I'll just tell you: 60%, 66%, two-thirds of the benefit of the tax cuts will go to the top 20%. | ||
| How many of y'all in the top 20%? | ||
| All right, we're not going to wait for you to raise your hands because we're not going to get any. | ||
| None of these people are in the top 20%. | ||
| And as Mr. Carter pointed out, that the top 1/10th percent, not 1%, 110th percent gets a $309,000 tax break while people making under $50,000 get drumroll $247. | ||
| And I'm telling you, Republicans have panicked. | ||
| They've thrown in stuff like no tax on tips. | ||
| Of course, you'll still be paying FICA. | ||
| You will be paying tax on those tips. | ||
| They're saying that they will not tax seniors on Social Security. | ||
| That's a lie. | ||
| You're going to get taxed on Social Security if you earn more than a certain amount. | ||
| All they're doing is putting a little temporary supplement in to fool you. | ||
| And, you know, the swamp math just doesn't work. | ||
| And the biggest thing that they've done, the biggest lie, you know, that, you know, the low-income people are going to realize $11,000 increase in their taxes and 72,000, I don't know where they get these numbers from. | ||
| They get it because the White House and the Republicans in Congress have agreed that we're going to have never before seen growth from these tax cuts. | ||
| Well, I'm old enough to know that in the last 45 years of trickle-down theories, that we ain't seen one drop of trickle. | ||
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And this bill is no different. | |
| Tax cuts do not pay for themselves. | ||
| Every credible economist will tell you that. | ||
| They, Republican economists, will tell you that they don't. | ||
| And how do we pay for this? | ||
| You'll hear in more detail from other members. | ||
| How in the world do we pay for it? | ||
| We pay for it number one, by fuzzy math. | ||
| Number two, by demonizing recipients of Medicaid, really calling them waste, fraud, and abuse, where people on Medicaid are, a 64-year-old woman is going to be required to work in order to get Medicaid or SNAP. | ||
| And if she's not been determined to be disabled by the Social Security Administration, she'll automatically be deemed to be able-bodied. | ||
| Okay, I'm coming. | ||
| Who's going to pay for this cost when we gut SNAP Medicaid in ACA? | ||
| The veterans, foster youth, seniors, children who are going to lose school lunch, 17 million Americans who lose health care. | ||
| And, you know, this bill is just morally irresponsible. | ||
| And I really thank my colleagues for the opportunity to share. | ||
| Thank you, Wayne. | ||
| And I would now like to yield to the person in our caucus. | ||
| She is a PhD, actually, Dr. Robin Kelly, who is the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Brain Trust. | ||
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All right, Benny See. | |
| Thank you very much, boys. | ||
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Let's give it up for one, y'all. | |
| Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much for being here today. | ||
| Thank you to Chairwoman Clark for organizing this press conference as the CBC speaks up and out against this bill. | ||
| As my colleagues have already said, this bill is cruel and evil. | ||
| It was ugly when it first passed the House, and then the Senate Republicans made it worse. | ||
| The big, ugly bill will cost people their lives. | ||
| That's the bottom line. | ||
| As you've heard, 17 million Americans will be stripped of their health care. | ||
| When people lose health care, yes, people die. | ||
| That's not hyperbole, that's fact. | ||
| And we know who will be most impacted, black people. | ||
| 13.3 million black people rely on Medicaid. | ||
| That includes 5.7 million children. | ||
| And if that isn't bad enough, the consequences of this bill go beyond the individual person. | ||
| It will impact hospitals, which in turn affect everyone, even if you aren't covered by Medicaid. | ||
| Emergency rooms will be flooded, or more flooded, I should say. | ||
| Wait times will increase. | ||
| Life-saving care will be delayed. | ||
| Hospitals and health care centers will be overwhelmed. | ||
| This Republican bill will lead to $1.3 billion in uncompensated care costs for hospitals across my home state of Illinois, threatening nine at-risk rural hospitals across the state. | ||
| Over 330 hospitals across the country can close. | ||
| It is never a good time for a hospital to close. | ||
| But right now, our country is in the middle of a black maternal mortality crisis. | ||
| Medicaid covers 65% of the births to black women. | ||
| Where will black women go if they don't have health insurance and there are no hospitals? | ||
| For many black women, the answer would be a local health clinic like Planned Parenthood that provides cancer screening, birth control, STI testing, and more. | ||
| But Republicans have long sought to end Planned Parenthood, and they're using this bill to defund it. | ||
| Nearly half of black women have received care at one of their clinics. | ||
| When I was in college, I was one of those black women. | ||
| I had moved from New York City to Peoria, Illinois, and I didn't know where else to go for a simple annual checkup. | ||
| I knew that Planned Parenthood was reliable, affordable, and accessible. | ||
| Sorry if that's too much information. | ||
| Our country is also in the midst of another public health crisis: gun violence. | ||
| Guns have been the leading cause of death for all children and teens since 2020, but guns have been the leading cause of death for black children since 2006. | ||
| Instead of protecting children, President Trump shut down the Office of Gun Violence Prevention on day one. | ||
| They are ending grants for community violence intervention. | ||
| Republicans are protecting guns, not children. | ||
| The big ugly bill eliminates restrictions on gun silencers and short-barreled rifles. | ||
| Gun silencers are not something out of a movie. | ||
| They create real harm to communities. | ||
| It should be common sense to regulate such dangerous weapons. | ||
| But Republicans have made it clear they do not care about black people or black lives. | ||
| Republicans are stealing our health care. | ||
| They are closing our hospitals and health clinics. | ||
| They are exacerbating gun violence and maternal mortality. | ||
| Simply put, this bill is deadly. | ||
| I'm still voting no. | ||
| Hell no. | ||
| And with that, I'd like to introduce my colleague from Connecticut, Johanna Hayes. | ||
| Teachers, Ms. Lady. | ||
| Teachers of the year. | ||
| Every year. | ||
| Thank you, and thank you for being here. | ||
| I find it hard to believe when I read articles that say that there's a huge percentage of the American public who doesn't even know what's in this bill because everybody should be paying attention to the profound impact of what is about to happen. | ||
| For me, the things that I am focused on are the cuts to nutrition and education, programs that our children rely on, all in order to fund tax breaks for the wealthiest individuals who don't even need it. | ||
| This Republican-led reconciliation bill proposes direct attacks on our youngest generation. | ||
| The bill is the largest cut ever in history to the SNAP program. | ||
| Nearly 27% of black families are recipients of SNAP. | ||
| For those families who are already disproportionately affected by food insecurity, these cuts will further deepen those hardships. | ||
| When kids lose SNAP benefits, they often lose access to free and reduced lunch at school. | ||
| There's something called community eligibility provisions, where schools get reimbursed for their students who receive SNAP benefits. | ||
| So when they lose food at home, they're also losing food at school. | ||
| This is going to hurt our most vulnerable students and the ones who need it most. | ||
| Beyond nutrition, this bill targets education. | ||
| Oh, wait, before I even move to education, there's a provision in this bill that is so incredibly cruel. | ||
| One of my colleagues referred to this as trickle-down cruelty yesterday. | ||
| So for families who have children, the age of a minor child went from 18 to 9 in the House version and 14 in the Senate version. | ||
| So on a child's 14th birthday, instead of their mother or their father serving them a birthday cake, which by the way, my colleagues don't want them to be able to buy with SNAP, they need to be out looking for a job. | ||
| They need to be out finding alternative employment to add to the one, two, sometimes three jobs they already have because they're about to lose their SNAP benefits. | ||
| It's beyond cruel. | ||
| This bill also targets education. | ||
| I am a teacher. | ||
| That is what brought me to Congress. | ||
| And the proposed cuts to the Department of Education would have prevented someone like me from pursuing a higher education and going to school. | ||
| About 60% of black students rely on Pell Grants. | ||
| This bill makes it harder for students to access Pell Grants, makes student loans more restrictive. | ||
| It even eliminates parent-plus loans and graduate plus loans. | ||
| This is particularly concerning for black students and families who historically rely on these loans to put their kids through college. | ||
| Yes, we all believe in career and technical education. | ||
| We all believe that we need a skilled labor force. | ||
| But we also know that in our poorest communities, we have students, black students, who are extremely bright, and they want to go to college. | ||
| They want to pursue degrees and go back and help their communities. | ||
| The changes in this bill would limit access to higher education and professional careers, like nurses, engineers, doctors, dentists, and even teachers, perpetuating cycles of economic disadvantage in our most vulnerable communities. | ||
| We do not need to make this choice. | ||
| We can afford to feed children in the United States of America, and even more, we can afford to educate children in the United States of America. | ||
| These policies are intended to take food out of the mouths of children, to strip away their educational opportunities and reward billionaires. | ||
| Hungry kids don't learn. | ||
| It's that simple. | ||
| The two go hand in hand. | ||
| You can't be a good teacher without worrying about what's in a kid's belly. | ||
| You can't only focus on their brain without focusing on their belly. | ||
| Imagine a child hungry and unable to learn. | ||
| Now imagine that same child with a brilliant mind who just needs a shot, who just needs the adults in power to move the obstacles that could make their dreams a reality. | ||
| Republicans are not just cutting budgets, they're cutting futures. | ||
| They're cutting off the right of every child in this nation to dream big. | ||
| They're cutting off the rights of black children to achieve their highest aspirations. | ||
| This bill is an act of malice. | ||
| I reject this irresponsible legislation. | ||
| I will vote no because I will never use my voice, my vote, or my privilege right now of serving in Congress to hurt children. | ||
| We have a moral responsibility to ensure that every child has access to nutritious food and a high quality education. | ||
| And if you think this doesn't affect you, wait five minutes. | ||
| Your neighbors, your friends, your communities, your families will be decimated by the effects of this reckless, irresponsible piece of legislation. | ||
| In this country, no child, no senior, no veteran, no person who works every day should go to bed hungry. | ||
| And in this Congress, we have the ability to make sure that that does not happen. | ||
| So stick around. | ||
| I don't know how long this is going to take. | ||
| I don't know if we're going to be here for the 4th of July, for Labor Day, for Thanksgiving, but I'll stay as long as it takes because I will not put a card in that machine and vote to take food out of the mouths of hungry children. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Ms. Kam Lagertawa. | ||
| Hello, everybody. | ||
| My name is Sidney Kamlagerdov. | ||
| I'm the Congresswoman for the 37th Congressional District. | ||
| I am standing here with my colleagues from the Congressional Black Caucus. | ||
| We are the Congressional Black Receipts Caucus. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, pull camera right here. | |
| Well, it's been a long, productive day. | ||
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We've been talking with members from across the conference and making sure that everyone's concerns are addressed and their questions are answered. | |
| And it's been a good day. | ||
| We're in a good place right now. | ||
| This is the legislative process. | ||
| This is exactly how I think the framers intended for it to work. | ||
| We feel very good about where we are and we're moving forward. | ||
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So we're going to deliver the Big Beautiful Bill, the President's America First Agenda, and we're going to do right by the American people. | |
| This is going to be a great thing for the country. | ||
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Look forward to moving it forward. | |
| Are you going to pass it tonight? | ||
| Adriano Espallat. | ||
| I know it's hot and late in the day, but we're here because a crime is being perpetrated in that building. | ||
| Whenever you cut health care severely, the way is attempted to be cut today, people's lives are in danger. | ||
| Seniors' lives are in danger. | ||
| Children's lives are in danger. | ||
| Mothers' lives are in danger. | ||
| Everyone's lives are in danger when cuts of this nature are being perpetrated like they are today. | ||
| When food stamps are being cut, the health of people is also in danger because nutrition is health. | ||
| So when nutrition assistance programs are being cut at a record level, more so than ever before in our nation's history, as Medicaid is being cut deeper and more so than ever before in our nation's history, | ||
| we must stand here before this occurs and speak out in support of our constituents across the country that depend on these vital programs to survive. | ||
| And all of this is being perpetrated to give the biggest tax cut to the rich, to the super rich. | ||
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So this bill is big, of course. | |
| It gives the biggest cut in Medicaid in our nation's history, in health care. | ||
| It gives the biggest cut to nutritional programs in our history. | ||
| And it gives the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class and middle class to the super rich in the history of our nation. | ||
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Está preda apresa es para sero una mado, una mado importante para nuestra comunidad. | |
| Mientra esperamo, lo que es una especia de crimengaí en el capitolio donde cedan recortes si unprecedente al programa de Medica program al programa de los compones de alimentos para dar le un exceptiono un puesto si unprecedente a los super rícos. | ||
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Acostilla de la clase trabajadora y la clase medía. | |
| Por eso estamos aquí para denunciar eso en el día de el anniversario de la Declaración de Independencia que fue institúida juliodó del mil esta tecientos de tenti say. | ||
| We are celebrating today the Declaration of Independence, which was drafted on July 2nd, 1776. | ||
| But this is far from a declaration of independence. | ||
| This will shackle us, our ability to be healthy, our ability to gain nutritional assistance, and our ability to get a recourse here in the U.S. Capitol. | ||
| Today we have members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to give their view on this ugly bill, and we start with Dr. Raul Ruiz. | ||
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Thank you, Chairman Espayat. | |
| This big, ugly bill was made uglier by the Senate. | ||
| It is an abomination to the nation. | ||
| It is an insult, an injury to working families. | ||
| As the Chairman said, it is the largest cuts to Medicaid in our nation's history, despite promises by Donald Trump otherwise. | ||
| This is the largest cut to food support programs that will take food away from hungry children, veterans, and seniors in our nation's history. | ||
| This is the largest tax cut in the billions for billionaires. | ||
| This is the largest transfer of wealth, the largest robbery of wealth from working families to billionaires. | ||
| This is the largest increase in the national debt by a bill in our nation's history. | ||
| This is a horrible bill. | ||
| This bill will create the largest amount of people uninsured in our nation's history. | ||
| Not only will people be uninsured, they will have to pay more out of pocket. | ||
| Those 17 million will become uncompensated care at your local hospitals. | ||
| Hospitals will incur the cost. | ||
| They will transfer it on to people by increasing premiums, and everybody will pay for that. | ||
| In addition to this, the $150 billion reduction in payments to hospitals, the $240 billion cuts through the provider tax that states rely on to help hospitals, and due to the increase in uncompensated care, there's going to be 20% of our rural hospitals are going to close. | ||
| Now, think about it: whether you have Medicare, private insurance, or Medicaid, if you have an emergency, which hospital are you going to go to if they're closed? | ||
| As an emergency medicine doctor, I know that you have about a 10 to 15-minute window if you're having a heart attack or a stroke to get the care to help prevent long-term damage and to save your life. | ||
| If you don't have a hospital in your neighborhood, you're going to be at risk for permanent disability or even death. | ||
| And that's why this bill is so dangerous. | ||
| Como medico de emergencia yo podicir que a baber más die esiciete milliones de personas que que no vana tenes e uron médico por este por esta propuesa delay. | ||
| Incluso 20 porciento de los hospitales rurales vana cierar. | ||
| Cuando no tien enseguro médico y tien en emergencia vana iir y no vana pueder pagar en tos los hospitales vana pagar esos costos. | ||
| Thato que decir que muchos no vana tener los hospitales en su comunidad. | ||
| Como médico de emergencia yo podo decir que las people tien unos días quiens minutos por sien caso tien un infarto del corazón or del cerebro y si no receive en el tratamiento a de cuado en este tiempo pueden morir o puentener disabilidades permanentes. | ||
| Entonces esta propuesa la le espeli groso. | ||
| Vaúnentar costos para todos y va aponer en ríasgo milliones de vidas en este paíís. | ||
| Gracias. | ||
| As they say in our community, listen to your doctor. | ||
| And now we're going to hear from Representative Jim Costa from California's 21st District. | ||
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Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. | |
| The legislation that is being considered today is big, but it's not beautiful. | ||
| It has a direct impact on the hardworking Hispanic communities that I represent in the San Joaquin Valley and for almost all of my district, for that matter. | ||
| If this measure were to pass, 1.8 million people in the San Joaquin Valley that rely on Medicaid, their health care, their safety net, would be endangered. | ||
| In my congressional district, that adds up to over 49,900 constituents that would lose their Medicaid coverage. | ||
| 35,000 people will lose SNAP benefits. | ||
| These are not just elderly, our people with disabilities. | ||
| Many of these are the working poor that labor in the fields, labor in trying to ensure that they put food on their families' dinner table every night, but do not make sufficient money to do so. | ||
| And therefore, the supplemental food that is provided from the SNAP program is absolutely essential. | ||
| Over 7,200 people in my congressional district would lose their Affordable Health Care Act. | ||
| And when we talk about the safety net that is being impacted that benefits less than 30% of Americans' population, over 40%, and I would stipulate probably over half of my constituents would be impacted. | ||
| The health care impacts on the safety net that Dr. Ruiz talked about are similar in my area. | ||
| 61% of the people at Community Medical Center, the second largest hospital in California with over 1,200 beds, 61% rely on Medicaid for their reimbursement. | ||
| And not to mention that we have rural hospitals, again, as was noted by my friend, the good doctor, that are significantly in danger of being closed, closed. | ||
| And in the rural areas of America, certainly in the San Joaquin Valley, you already have complicated challenges of having to drive 30 minutes or an hour to get access to health care. | ||
| And that's also being threatened at this point in time. | ||
| So let me close by saying this. | ||
| Two things have already impacted the people in the San Joaquin Valley. | ||
| Mass deportation and the tariff issues, because I represent one of the largest agricultural regions in the country. | ||
| Mass deportations have resulted in less than half of the workforce not going to their jobs every day because they are in fear of being deported. | ||
| Let me explain that. | ||
| This is not like working in a factory where you shut down for a week and then you come back and you start working again. | ||
| When those pizzas are ripe, they need to be picked. | ||
| When those cherries are ready to be consumed, they need to be put in the grocery store. | ||
| And if you wait a week or two weeks, that beautiful product that Americans enjoy at home at their table is no longer available, period. | ||
| And so you combine the one-two punch of mass deportations, tariffs that eroded our markets abroad, and this big, ugly bill. | ||
| And it is a triple punch impacting the people that I represent. | ||
| And that's the reason that we've got to do everything we can to keep this measure from passing and go back to the drawing board. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Yes, now we're going to listen to Representative Juan Bargas from California's 52nd District. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I want to thank all my colleagues for being here. | ||
| This big, ugly bill would be devastating for my district. | ||
| I represent San Diego, the border area. | ||
| And we've been hit hard because of the immigration raids, ICE. | ||
| In fact, recently, we had four men, armed men with machine guns, waiting to arrest a young lady with three children as she left the hotel where she works. | ||
| She thought she was under attack. | ||
| These men attacked her. | ||
| She went to the ground. | ||
| She was crying and screaming. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because she had three children at home that didn't know if she was going to come home or not. | ||
| She wanted to make sure that she could come home for those kids. | ||
| And what does this do? | ||
| It gives them hundreds of millions and literally $150 billion to do this some more. | ||
| And to what? | ||
| To create also alligator alcatraz, the stupidest thing I've ever heard of? | ||
| This is only to humiliate people. | ||
| It's not really a prison. | ||
| It's to humiliate people. | ||
| And that's what they're doing. | ||
| It's outrageous, and we have to stop it. | ||
| I know that my colleagues have already spoken about the devastating cuts to Medicaid, but I want to emphasize when you're on the border, you have a lot of special needs. | ||
| You have a lot of people in San Diego who have adopted children. | ||
| They've adopted children from throughout the world. | ||
| And what happens is that they count on Medicaid, they count on some services to be able to adopt these children. | ||
| And what happens now, they're saying they're going to take this money, these opportunities for them to raise their children away. | ||
| That's what this big, ugly bill does. | ||
| And why? | ||
| Simply to give billionaires more money. | ||
| We have billionaires in San Diego. | ||
| They're all against it. | ||
| We don't have a whole bunch, but every billionaire in San Diego is against this bill. | ||
| One of them said, you know what? | ||
| This will give me $25 million more next year that I don't need. | ||
| Why are you guys passing this bill? | ||
| I said, well, we're not. | ||
| We're fighting like hell against it. | ||
| And hopefully we'll stop it today. | ||
| Tenemos que pelliad encuntad este cochino bill because yo represento San Diego in San Diego. | ||
| This courtes a la yuda médica sería premente un corte que las temería mi les de personas thereí. | ||
| Especiallymente y mucha gente no sabed esto. | ||
| Las people queadada adoptado a niños que tiena ayuda médica muchos eso van parder está yuda. | ||
| Y no ma eso tamien lo que estamos viendo en San Diego. | ||
| Los arrestos de ACE. | ||
| These people yien nos criminales, nos hacesinos. | ||
| Son señoros que trabajanín lo hotel, como una que salio ace poco el da ya saludo de trabajo que registar la casa con ustedes niños y a y cuatro de ahí de ACE, la tacacaron tenía metra ayados para que una señora que trabaj en lo hotel. | ||
| Y esto la derían como siento y 5 bión lez más para cere eso. | ||
| Por estamos encontra established. | ||
| Y glacias, por estar aquí a todos mis compaños vamos apelliar encunta este cochino bill. | ||
| Glacias. | ||
| Haci es que sellama cochino bill. | ||
| And let's call now on our very own Congressman Joaquín Castro. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you, Chairman. | ||
| This bill is shameful, and it's going to be devastating to so many American communities and especially the Latino communities in so many ways at every age of life. | ||
| And my colleagues have spoken well to that. | ||
| And we've spoken over the last few weeks about how devastating the Medicaid cuts would be to long-term nursing home stays, the cuts to Pell Grants, all of these very bad things. | ||
| But I also want to speak to something that Juan addressed, which is the fact that this is the biggest wealth transfer in American history. | ||
| They're taking the money not just to give it to billionaires, but to give it to ICE for more raids. | ||
| The way that ICE is conducting itself, it is terrorizing communities right now. | ||
| Why do I say that? | ||
| Because you have people who are carrying guns with no badges, oftentimes not in uniform, not identifying themselves, and snatching people off the street. | ||
| We've heard mothers wailing as they're pulled away violently because their kids are in school and their kids are going to wonder what happened to them when nobody shows up to pick them up from school. | ||
| And this bill is going to make it worse. | ||
| It's going to make it worse because it adds billions and billions of dollars, not just for more ICE agents to go into the streets in more cities and more communities and do exactly that, but they also have made denaturalization a priority. | ||
| They are going to go to the Latino community, start investigating people, and try to prove that they don't deserve their citizenship. | ||
| That's what this bill does. | ||
| It will dedicate billions of dollars for them to go into Latino communities and try to strip people of their citizenship. | ||
| So it's not a matter of whether somebody is a criminal or not. | ||
| We've seen now that it was a lie that they were only going to target violent criminals. | ||
| They targeted the other day a man that had been in this country for 60 years who ended up dying in ICE custody. | ||
| They're not just going to go after criminals, they're going to go after everyday people living across American Latino communities. | ||
| So this bill is not only bad and devastating and shameful, but it's also dangerous for our community. | ||
| Thank you, Joaquin. | ||
| And to further speak on this Cochino bill, we're going to listen now to Darren Soto from Florida's 9th District. | ||
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President Trump's mass deportation is separating families, raising costs, and wrecking our economy. | |
| The one big, ugly bill would allow him to double down on his disastrous policies. | ||
| Thousands of Florida families are being torn apart right now. | ||
| Nearly 500,000 humanitarian parolees just lost their legal status. | ||
| Cubans, Venezuelans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans, and another 400,000 TPS holders, predominantly from Venezuela and Haiti, also had their legal status destroyed. | ||
| They were contributing to our economy, and Trump took that all away. | ||
| We've had local families, someone just mentioned a guy who was in the country 60 years from Cuba in Florida, who just died in ICE custody. | ||
| The Juarez Miranda family, who was just deported after 24 years in our agricultural area. | ||
| And now thousands of local citizens in Florida and across our nation are seeing their family members deported. | ||
| Trump's mass deportation is raising costs from farms and ranches to restaurants and landscapers, home builders to hotels and theme parks. | ||
| Major employers and small businesses are losing thousands of employees. | ||
| Now the cost to grow food, manufacture goods, and go on vacation or go out to eat is going to go up as a result. | ||
| Add in Trump's tariffs and it makes the costs even worse. | ||
| Americans are seeing those costs rise in their bank statements every month and their credit card bills every month. | ||
| And Trump's mass deportation is wrecking our economy. | ||
| We saw a terrible jobs report today. | ||
| 33,000 jobs lost this month. | ||
| When you take away workers, raise tariffs, and cause general chaos, businesses pull back on investment and consumers pull back on spending, which is why we saw a negative 5% growth in the first quarter. | ||
| And I think we're going to see it be official. | ||
| I fully expect this next quarter will be negative. | ||
| And then we will have a recession or what I like to call a Trump session. | ||
| If this isn't all bad enough, the one big, ugly bill will double down on Trump's failed immigration policies. | ||
| $150 billion more for ICE? | ||
| Really? | ||
| More money for alligator, Alcatraz? | ||
| They will kick their mass deportation into high gear. | ||
| They can't seem to deport America's farm workers, cooks, landscapers, cleaning ladies, and construction workers fast enough. | ||
| And it's driving our nation's economy to ruin. | ||
| La deportación de presidente trumpe esa separando familias, crecindo gastos y destroying nuetro economía. | ||
| Y su great proyecta de la Feo va tener fuerso double de su policías de disastres. | ||
| Miles de familes sa separado. | ||
| Casio million people, Cubanos, Venezuelanos, Haitians, and Nicaraguans, who have legalmente, contepees, or parole humanitarian Trump termino su status legal. | ||
| Y ahora, nosotros vemos siudanos qui en tienes members de familia qui taran. | ||
| En este está creciiendo gastos, por comida, por casas, por allos otros, cosas, nosos campramos, caladía, este está afectando emprazaros bequeños y employeadores grandes. | ||
| Y also nosotros tenemos este taros que en está haciendo este situación más peyor. | ||
| Y también nosotros tenemos una economía que en está per diendo trabajos, purdiendo crecemiento, yo creo nosotros vamos aer un recession. | ||
| Porque quien? | ||
| Porque Trump está tratando para terminal Nuetro economía conste deportaciónes y siento 5 por ice, por Alligator Alcatraz, porque para destroyer Nuetro economía más este no tiene essence y nosotros necistamos. | ||
| Vota no y nuestro Calcos Espanosa, unidos en este oposión. | ||
| Gracias. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And now we're going to hear from California's Congressman Salú Carvajal. | ||
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Thank you, Adriano. | |
| Let's call this misleading bill what it is. | ||
| It's a big, ugly betrayal of the American people bill. | ||
| That's what this is. | ||
| And as a Marine, I'm not going to be as polite as my colleagues. | ||
| This is a bunch of fucking bullshit. | ||
| Like we say in Spanish, it's una mierdan. | ||
| Families across the country have been struggling with the high cost of essentials like groceries, rent, child care, and health care. | ||
| This administration should be working in a bipartisan way to resolve these issues. | ||
| At least that's what the President Trump promised. | ||
| But the American people have seen completely the opposite. | ||
| Republicans, at the direction of President Trump, have decided to cut social programs for the most vulnerable people in our country in order to give billionaires like Elon Musk another tax break they don't need. | ||
| In their budget bill, Republicans are trying to pass unprecedented funding cuts to health care and food assistance programs. | ||
| In my home district, California Central Coast, these cuts mean over 40,000 people will lose their health care, up to 200,000. | ||
| And 119,000 people that rely on SNAP for food assistance are at risk of going hungry. | ||
| This is outrageous and cruel. | ||
| Instead of protecting and strengthening your health care coverage and feeding hungry families, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are working to approve these indiscriminate cuts that will cause needless suffering. | ||
| All for what? | ||
| To give the richest 1% of Americans the largest tax break in history. | ||
| Not to mention, it adds over $4 trillion to our national debt. | ||
| So if I haven't made myself clear, I fundamentally oppose the Republican budget bill. | ||
| Los Republicanos, siguando las ordenes de este presidente Trump, handacidido recortar los programas sociales que apoyan a las personas más vulnerables de este countiz. | ||
| Todo paradox a los Maricos otra redución de impuestos. | ||
| Esto es cruel y in humano. | ||
| Y además esto aamenta laudeda nacional entrest a cuatro billiones de dolares. | ||
| Así que haí que sino a que dadado claro. | ||
| Mil pongo a este proyecto de lay que es in justo. | ||
| Thank you, Saluk. | ||
| Thank you, Saluk. | ||
| And now we're going to listen from the border, Representative Vicente Gonzalez. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | |
| Vicente Gonzalez from the great state of Texas. | ||
| We are here in unity, opposing one of the most atrocious bills in modern American history. | ||
| A bill that is impacting senior citizens with over $500 billion of health care cuts to the elderly, the most vulnerable population in America, $400 billion in Medicaid. | ||
| Over a quarter of households in my district in southern Texas are impacted by this. | ||
| This bill leaves 100,000 people at least without health care. | ||
| It cuts $300 billion in SNAP. | ||
| That means school lunches and school breakfasts and meals on wheels for seniors. | ||
| These are sometimes the only meals this population gets all day long. | ||
| But it also empowers this administration with billions of dollars to continue these unlawful, inhumane, un-American raids. | ||
| Raids that are focused on our people, that are devastating the American economy. | ||
| I spoke with my farmers just last week, a big group that supported President Trump. | ||
| They were all in opposition to this bill. | ||
| I spoke with construction companies that are a standstill because they cannot finish their projects because they don't have labor to do so. | ||
| I spoke with other industries, the hotel industry, the restaurant industry. | ||
| Everybody is devastated by the raids that are happening across this country in such an inhumane, hyper-aggressive manner. | ||
| These are working people. | ||
| There's visuals and footage on TV of them chasing down people with weed eaters in their hands, mowing lawns, doing the dirtiest and hardest work in this country. | ||
| That is the population that ICE has gone after. | ||
| And I tell you, Stephen King, Stephen Miller, today it's us. | ||
| Tomorrow it's you. | ||
| It won't be long before the focus is off us, and it's against you and your people. | ||
| So it's time for Americans, regardless of what part of the country you are from or what race or nationality, to speak up against the atrocities that are happening in America. | ||
| Y la adigo a la gente enlispana que este es el robo más grande que se avisto historia americana costando 2atro tríón de dodor al pueblo trabajador par diendo medicare para la gente maior, perdiendo Medicaid para la gente decesitada trabajadora, snap que muchas veces la unica comida que received a yño una persona de tracedad. | ||
| Y la adigo a Stephen Miller, today is perceiviendo la communidad Latina, but when este a foc termines baser tú comunidad y va certú la esque vana perseguir. | ||
| Yes, hora que se despiertes toddl countís, gente que Latinos y no Latinos, yablen encontra elas actions que estomados 'adminicion. | ||
| Gracias. | ||
| Gracias, Vicente. | ||
| Y ahora, vamos escuchal de la congresista los rivas de California. | ||
| Muchas gracias, Chair Espayat, for gathering us here today. | ||
| We are back in Washington to stop Republicans' big ugly bill that will implement the largest cuts to health care in our country's history. | ||
| Over 17 million Americans will be impacted by this big, ugly bill, including 2.3 million Californians. | ||
| Republicans' cuts to SNAP are cruel and means that kids, seniors, and people with disabilities will go hungry. | ||
| Also in this big, ugly bill is a blank check for Trump to implement his cruel immigration enforcement agenda that has terrorized our communities and left families living in fear. | ||
| You know, I represent part of the city of Los Angeles and I have witnessed firsthand the fears that the community has because of these ICE raids that are happening in our city. | ||
| This bill means more money for ICE to continue operating without any oversight, accountability, or transparency. | ||
| It's going to result in more fear, more chaos, more harm on our most vulnerable. | ||
| You know, this includes people, you know, I've listened to so many stories from people that have been impacted. | ||
| Andrea Velez, a 32-year-old citizen from downtown Los Angeles who was wrongfully detained by ICE. | ||
| Narciso Baranse, a Marine Corps veteran from California who was beaten by mass veteran agents. | ||
| And Ambrosio Losano, an ice cream vendor from California who was placed in an unmarked vehicle and driven to an unknown location despite not having a criminal record. | ||
| These are all hardworking people who are trying to live out their American dream, only to be detained and sent to facilities across the country. | ||
| We have shown up to ICE facilities across the country and have been stonewalled trying to get answers from them. | ||
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It's evident that ICE lacks the competence and humanity to care for our most vulnerable and should not be giving a blank check to implement Trump's anti-immigrant agenda. | |
| And that's why I join all our House Democrats to vote no on this bill. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, Oluz. | ||
| And now we're going to listen to Congresswoman Emily Randolph from Washington's 6th District. | ||
| Gracias, Mr. Chair, for bringing us together. | ||
| And thank you for being here and telling the stories of what's happening in this building today and in our communities across the country. | ||
| I'm a freshman and I came to Congress to fight for my neighbors, to make life easier for folks who are just trying to build strong futures. | ||
| I came from a legislature where I didn't always agree with my Republican colleagues, but where we were able to work together on services for disabled Washingtonians and on expanding Medicaid. | ||
| I passed a Medicaid expansion unanimously through the Washington state legislature, but here in this building, our Republican colleagues are lying to you when they say that people aren't going to lose their Medicaid coverage. | ||
| Millions of Americans, 17 million Americans stand to lose Medicaid coverage under this bill. | ||
| In my district, it's over 170,000. | ||
| But I'm not just worried about the folks in Washington's 6th District. | ||
| I'm also worried about the people who live in central and eastern Washington, who are represented by Dan Newhouse and Mike Baumgartner, who live just like my constituents, far away from healthcare facilities already, who struggle to access health care because their independent providers and small clinics are shuttering their doors. | ||
| Just a few years ago in Washington state, we had to bail out a rural hospital because otherwise people would have to drive hours and hours to access their health care. | ||
| This bill threatens to tear health care away not only for Medicaid patients, but for folks in rural communities who depend on the hospitals keeping their doors open. | ||
| From elderly Americans who depend on Medicaid funding and Medicaid-funded facilities to access health care at the end of their life. | ||
| This bill is bad for the people of this country. | ||
| It's dangerous, and we don't have to pass it. | ||
| I'm calling on my Republican colleagues to be brave right now, to stand up for what's right, and to really dedicate themselves to ensuring that all Americans have the tools that they need to thrive. | ||
| Thank you so much, Emily. | ||
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And now we're going to hear from New Jersey's Congresswoman Nellie Poe. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Good afternoon, everyone. | ||
| And first, let me just say that I stand here proudly alongside my colleagues from the CHC to speak about this big, bad, ugly bill. | ||
| We all know you've heard many of my colleagues talk about what are some of the massive impacts that it will have. | ||
| Well, let me just share a little bit more, some of which you've already heard, but it is just unbelievable that we are still trying to convince the House Republicans on what an incredibly terrible bill this is and for them to have the courage to do the right thing, to do the right thing for their constituents, to do the right thing for all Americans. | ||
| The massive cuts to Medicaid in this bill will unleash catastrophic effects, impacts across America and my district. | ||
| You know, I heard from a mother in my district who's worried that her disabled son won't have Medicaid access when he ages out of her insurance, which will be soon. | ||
| Another mother, another woman in our district shared that she's worried that Medicaid cuts will mean seniors will lose the health care, nutrition support, social engagement at their local adult care centers, and that help them live independent and meaningful lives. | ||
| A father told me that he fears that his adult daughter with a disability will end up homeless if she loses her Medicaid. | ||
| Without these supports, people will likely have to leave their homes for much costlier institutional settings. | ||
| Instead of helping the least advantage in our community get by, this bill will take away their health care from 17 million Americans and will make them go hungry. | ||
| Instead of lowering costs, it will lead to thousands losing their jobs as nursing homes and hospitals will indeed close. | ||
| Instead of asking billionaires to contribute their fair share, it gives them the tax breaks that they absolutely do not need, and it is just unfathomable. | ||
| Instead of strengthening the economy, it will balloon the national deficit and cost New Jersey billions of dollars. | ||
| This is indeed a cruel bill, a bill that is really going to devastate every single American, except for those who are absolutely the wealthiest of our members in our society. | ||
| They will be just fine. | ||
| They don't have to worry about whether or not they put food on the table, whether or not they have a roof over their head. | ||
| They do not have to worry whether or not they can afford to go to the doctor and pay their medical bills. | ||
| These are the concerns that we have. | ||
| These are the things that we're trying to get Americans to understand. | ||
| And this is why we will continue to fight to try to get our House Republicans to understand that they are part of a big lie. | ||
| Donald Trump is lying when he tells you that he was not going to do this, that he was not going to touch Medicaid. | ||
| The House Republicans are lying when they tell you that that is not going to impact Americans. | ||
| Believe me, we will hear it down the road, the effects that this bill will have. | ||
| We must stop them from being able to pass it. | ||
| I urge all of my colleagues to vote no on this bill. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| Thank you, Congresswoman Poe. | ||
| As we are here in the 11th hour, appealing to just four Republicans. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Just four Republicans we need to side with the people of the United States of America. | ||
| We have with us a great representative from New Jersey, Representative Rob Menendez. | ||
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Thank you, Chairman. | |
| Thanks, thanks to all my CHC colleagues for being here today. | ||
| I think when you hear 17 million people are going to lose health care, you see that it's not just in places like New York and New Jersey, but it's in Florida and Texas, across the country, in blue and red districts, and why this bill should be problematic for all members of Congress, not just Democrats. | ||
| And as the chairman said, we only need four Republicans to acknowledge the harm that this is going to cause and vote in favor and in honor of their constituents by voting no against this bill. | ||
| And for the American people, they hear Democrats and Republicans tell two different stories. | ||
| But think about on immigration when President Trump said that he was only going to deport criminals, right? | ||
| What we've seen every day in our community is that he's casting a wide net that has included citizens here who have been detained, apprehended, people here who are on visa status, people's families being torn apart who have no criminal record. | ||
| So we know that the president can't be trusted. | ||
| We know that he's already lied on his signature issue that he ran on and has enacted during his time in office. | ||
| And when it comes to a bill this big, it's clear that the president and Republicans can't be trusted. | ||
| It's why every vote, every markup, every debate has happened in the middle of the night. | ||
| It's why House Republicans have been told not to have town halls, because if they talk to their constituents, if they talk to the American people, they would know that this bill is deeply unpopular. | ||
| So my point to the American people is just look at the track record of this administration and you will know that these people cannot be trusted, especially on something as monumental and important as people's health care, people's nutrition. | ||
| These folks cannot be trusted. | ||
| It's why we all will be voting no and making sure the American people understand what's at stake because there is still time left to call the representatives that may be thinking about voting for this and telling them they're making a huge mistake. | ||
| So thank you all so much and appreciate everything that CHC does. | ||
| Thank you, Representative Menendez. | ||
| Son cuatros republicanos. | ||
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Today, para que cuatro republicanos le deng el voto para preservar programa de medica program el programas de compones y alimento para segural que nuayga la másba deportación que propone está y vando acabo el Presidente Trump iso administración. | |
| Que no impacte dramáticamente negativamente en nuestra familias. | ||
| Preguntas, questions. | ||
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On topic. | |
| So, yeah, you were saying you need four, and it's been three hours of holding a vote, and they're down from nine to four. | ||
| Right now, there's four Republicans that are not really being convinced yet. | ||
| But it seems like it, like it happened in the Senate. | ||
| It's just a matter of when. | ||
| Eventually, they'll go into bent, and they're just gonna vote for yes. | ||
| Or do you think you no no dadmos por bencido? | ||
| We don't give up, we need four votes. | ||
| I know that in many other districts, in many other districts, there are hundreds of thousands of people that will lose their Medicaid, that will lose their food stamps, that will get severely hurt, that will be the victims of a weaponized immigration system. | ||
| So, we're hopeful and we're optimistic that four people could hold out. | ||
| Four people could hold out. | ||
| And as we saw in the Senate, it was just one vote. | ||
| In fact, it was just one vote to pass the bill out of this house. | ||
| And so, we're waiting, and we're optimistic, and we're hopeful that those four will hold out. | ||
| They will be the heroes of the American people. | ||
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¿Y en español? | |
| Son cuatro votos que no necesitamos. | ||
| Nos sentimos optimistas. | ||
| Cuatro votos pueden hacer la diferencia. | ||
| En el Senado tomó un solo voto y la vez que salió el proyecto de aquí fue por un solo voto. | ||
| Esta vez hay cuatros que hasta ahora se han rehusado de aprobar este proyecto por los daños que le va a causar a sus distritos. | ||
| Gracias, anybody else? | ||
| Thank you, everybody. | ||
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A vote here to approve debate rules for Republican tax and spending cuts legislation, which President Trump calls the one big beautiful bill. | |
| It would permanently extend expiring individual and business tax cuts enacted in 2017 by the previous Trump administration. | ||
| It appropriates $153 billion for defense, $89 billion for immigration enforcement, and nearly $90 billion for border security. | ||
| The legislation also raises the statutory debt limit by $5 trillion and makes cuts to Medicaid and food stamp programs. | ||
| Republican leaders in both the House and Senate have been working hard to deliver the bill ahead of the July 4th deadline President Trump has set, which is this Friday. | ||
| Speaker Johnson continues to meet with a number of Republican holdouts, including members of the House Freedom Caucus, who have also been in meetings at the White House. | ||
| Republicans can only lose a handful of votes with such a slim majority. | ||
| One of the reasons the vote just before this one was held open and action on the floor frozen for several hours. | ||
| The bill passed the Senate Tuesday, 51 to 50, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tiebreaking vote. | ||
| If approved by the House in its current form, it would go to the White House for President Trump's signature. | ||
| However, if the House approves any amendments or changes to the bill, it would need to go back to the Senate for another approval vote. | ||
| We are here today united as House Democrats to make clear to the American people that every single House Democrat will stand up for your health care. | ||
| Stand up for your Medicaid. | ||
| Stand up for your Medicare. | ||
| Stand up for the Affordable Care Act. | ||
| Stand up for nutritional assistance for our children, our seniors, and our veterans. | ||
| Stand up for our hospitals. | ||
| Stand up for our nursing homes. | ||
| Stand up for our community-based health centers and stand up against massive tax breaks for GOP billionaire donors. | ||
| And that is why every single House Democrat will vote hell no against this one big, ugly bill. | ||
| And all we need are four House Republicans to join us in defense of their constituents who will suffer mightily from this bill. | ||
| Children will be hurt. | ||
| Families will be hurt. | ||
| People with disabilities will be hurt. | ||
| Women will be hurt by what is an all-out assault on the health care of the American people. | ||
| An unprecedented assault, ripping health care away from more than 17 million Americans. | ||
| Premiums, co-pays, and deductibles for other people on private insurance will go up all across the country. | ||
| Hospitals will close. | ||
| Nursing homes will shut down. | ||
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Community-based clinics won't have the ability to operate. | |
| And as a result, people are going to die connected to this one big, ugly bill. | ||
| Tens of thousands of unnecessary American deaths per year. | ||
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Shame on Republicans for even bringing this bill to the House floor. | |
| So all we need are four Republicans to join us in support of their constituents to have John McCain level courage and stand up in defense of the health care of the American people. | ||
| What type of party would bring a bill to the House floor that rips away Medicaid from those in need? | ||
| What kind of party would bring a bill to the House floor that literally robs food from the mouths of children, veterans, and seniors? | ||
| And all of this is being done to provide massive tax breaks to their billionaire donors. | ||
| It's unconscionable. | ||
| It's unacceptable. | ||
| It's un-American. | ||
| And House Democrats are committing to you that we're going to do everything in our power to stop it. | ||
| And all we need are four Republicans, just four, to show John McCain level courage. | ||
| Just four. | ||
| There are 220 of them. | ||
| All we need are four. | ||
| And so all we have to do as a Congress is act in a manner consistent with the better angels of this country. | ||
| Stand up for everyday Americans, not the wealthy, the well-off, and the well-connected. | ||
| That's what Republicans are doing in bringing this one big ugly bill to the House floor. | ||
| Why would anyone vote for this dangerous and extreme bill? | ||
| Why would Rob Bresnahan vote for this bill? | ||
| More than 30,000 people would lose access to their health care in his community in Pennsylvania. | ||
| Almost 60,000 households could lose access to food assistance in his community at risk of going hungry. | ||
| Why would Rob Bresnahan vote for this bill? | ||
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Why would Scott Perry vote for this bill? | |
| Almost 25,000 people in his community will lose access to health care. | ||
| In his community in Pennsylvania, almost 40,000 households would lose access to nutritional assistance. | ||
| They're at risk of going hungry. | ||
| Why would Scott Perry vote for this bill? | ||
| You see, the difference between them and us, they work for the special interests, for the rich and the shameless, for the wealthy, the well-off, and the well-connected. | ||
| House Democrats work for the people. | ||
| And that's why we will continue to do everything in our power to stop this bill in its tracks. | ||
| Every single one of us will stand up for the health care of the American people, for the nutritional assistance of the American people, for efforts that actually should be designed to improve their quality of life, not hurt it, to lower the high cost of living, not raise it, to bring people together, not tear us apart. | ||
| John Lewis, who we all had the opportunity to serve with and continue to draw inspiration from, would always remind us that even in the face of what appears to be insurmountable odds, that we have a moral responsibility, and that certainly is the case right now, to show up and stand up and speak up for what we know is right with every single fiber in our body. | ||
| That's what we are going to do. | ||
| Show up today, show up tomorrow, show up this week, show up next week, show up this year, show up next year, show up until we end this national nightmare in the United States of America and continue our march toward a more perfect union. | ||
| now my honor to yield to our distinguished whip catherine clark thank you mr leader and good morning This week, we will celebrate our nation's independence. | ||
| We will celebrate our freedom, the fact that we are not ruled by a king, but that the power belongs to the people. | ||
| We will celebrate the fundamental promise of the American dream, the idea that if we work hard, we can provide for our families. | ||
| We can have a life of dignity, a fair shot. | ||
| So it's especially shocking that the Republicans are rushing to sign this cruel bill by the 4th of July. | ||
| The largest cut to health care in our history. | ||
| The largest transfer of wealth from working families to the billionaire class. | ||
| A bill that makes Americans sicker and poorer. | ||
| A bill that takes food from the hungry. | ||
| There is no freedom in this bill. | ||
| Unimaginably, this bill is worse than when it left the House. | ||
| It cuts Medicaid by $1 trillion. | ||
| It kicks 17 million Americans off of their health care. | ||
| It threatens hundreds of hospitals with closure, along with a quarter of all nursing homes. | ||
| It hikes the cost of electricity. | ||
| It hands a 3% pay cut to hardworking people of this country and hands their children $5 trillion in debt. | ||
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Does that sound like freedom to you? | |
| Or does that sound like a government of, by, and for the rich? | ||
| So who would vote for this bill? | ||
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Why would David Valladea vote for this bill? | |
| Over 65,000 people in his district will lose access to health care if this passes. | ||
| 60,000 households will lose access to their food assistance. | ||
| And over 3,600 energy jobs will be lost just in California 22. | ||
| But why would Young Kim in California 40 vote for this bill either? | ||
| Over 31,000 people in her communities will lose their health care, and 15,000 households could lose access to food assistance. | ||
| Why indeed? | ||
| But we've been told exactly where we stand. | ||
| The vice president said these cuts are immaterial. | ||
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Mitch McConnell says people will get over it. | |
| Joni Ernst reminded us we're all going to die anyway. | ||
| So at a time when most households are struggling to afford the basics, Republicans have a clear message for American families. | ||
| You don't matter. | ||
| The people that power America are nurses, our first responders, our small business owners, our veterans. | ||
| Under this bill, the Republican Party views you as expendable and that opportunity is reserved for the elite. | ||
| Freedom isn't something abstract. | ||
| It's something you do. | ||
| It's something you empower people to do. | ||
| You cannot shackle opportunity for the American people. | ||
| You cannot restrain their ability to be free and then drape yourself in the American flag on Independence Day. | ||
| So this 4th of July, House Democrats are going to stand in unity with millions of people across this country. |