After a controversial, heated debate night, the Republican budget bill remains on rocky territory, after which Democrats repeatedly accused the Republicans of using dark cover to try to resolve it through unwelcome legislation.
The so-called “a large bill bill” will give Donald Trump's 2017 tax break, a boon for the richest earners in the country. To cover these cuts, Republicans plan to take millions of people away from Medicaid, food aid and other critical social safety net programs.
Republicans plan to hold a key meeting of the House Rules Committee at 1 a.m. Wednesday. The marathon hearing lasted more than eight hours. It has no escape notice, i.e. late night hearings occur when most journalists, government officials and interested public will be at home and when they fall asleep.
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass) (D-Mass) said you certainly only have over 100 days from committing to lower costs to depriving people of health care. Of course, you don’t want anyone to know what you’re doing.”
“You have the most ineffective Congress of the century, you hardly pass legal legislation, is that how you want to issue large core legislation at 1:00 a.m.?” McGovern added. “It's not just incompetent. It's more evil than this. You deliberately hide what you are doing. What is an insult to the people of this country, and what despise you must have for those who vote for you.”
Rep. Brendan Boyle, a ranking member of the House Budget Committee, noted that shortly before the hearing, the Congressional Budget Office released the latest analysis, estimating that “due to this bill, the lowest 10% of Americans will actually be worse, with the biggest benefit being the highest 1% of Americans.”
The analysis also found that changes in Medicaid and Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will lead to a significant decline in household resources, with the lowest income earnings over the next decade. According to the new analysis, the Republican bill will also lead to about $500 million in Medicare cuts.
Boyle added: “Even in all these Medicaid cuts, all these Medicare cuts, all these Medicare cuts, all these cuts, all these cuts, and the bill is not fully paid. This is “increasingly repaying our national debt.”
Democrats also took this opportunity to hone some other ridiculousness in legislation. Hours after the hearing (when Sunlight finally returned to the Capitol), Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.), a ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee called for a provision in the bill that would repeal taxes on gun mufflers, while Republicans hope to put stricter job requirements on Snap Fepoters.
“I don't know why it's better to be a good idea when we're going to feed children with fewer people in the country. It's a morally damn failure,” Craig said.
In another exchange, Rep. Teresa Leg Fernandez (DN.M.) demanded that the House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) read a line in the committee’s legislation to repeal the excise tax on tanned beds.
“I don't want to read the bill for you,” Smith responded to Fernández.
“They are repealing the excise tax on tanning beds. They are repealing the tax on silencers,” Fernandez said after letting another member read out the sales project. “So if you have a tanned bed, you get some tax breaks, and if you need a hospital bed in rural America, you’re in a bad luck.”
As mentioned earlier Rolling stones Hospital executives and staff warned that the Medicaid eligibility that Republicans are trying to disguise cuts on disguise as anti-waste legislation could force many hospitals, especially in rural areas.
Despite having a majority in Congress, as well as control over the White House, Republicans are still working to pass any form of legislation in the first few months of Trump’s tenure. As of Wednesday morning, several hardline members of the Republican caucus remained against the “big and beautiful” bill. Overnight, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-la.) was forced to make concessions to the so-called “Salt Caucus,” a group of Republicans demanded an increase in caps for national and local tax (salt) deductions allowed by some states.
Johnson insists that the Budget Committee will vote on Wednesday and has encountered several reservations, including Chip Roy (R-Texas), Andy Harris (R-Md.) and Keith Self (R-Texas.). On Tuesday, Trump went to the Capitol to talk directly to Republicans and urged them to pass everything he hoped to be his iconic legislation with little noticeable impact.
If Republicans do manage to take the duck out in a row and pass the committee vote to get the bill through the committee, the legislation will face a brand new opposition in the Senate.
Democratic minorities are aware that they will not provide air or comfort to the other end of the aisle. “Every Republican member who voted for this vote. You have it,” McGovern said Wednesday. “You have every hospital closed, every child sleeping hungry. Every senior citizen who lost care, every American family is forced to choose between groceries and rent, between their heating fees and child care.”
“You can force us to debate this bill in the night's death, and you can do that while this country sleeps. But the American people will wake up tomorrow, and I promise you will wake up to how terrible your agenda is.” “They will remember this moment.”
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