Democratic Congress Member Garcia
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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Margaret, I got to tell you, it was like listening to 1984 or something, listening to the speaker. You know, anybody can look this up. The American people want basically three things out of their federal budget. Number one is
At this point in time when the wealthiest Americans are doing better than ever before, Americans want the wealthiest of Americans to pay more taxes and to give tax relief to the middle class and below. Number two, they want us to address the deficit. which is now spiraling out of control to the point where we got a downgrade in one of the U.S. credit ratings.
And third, they want a simpler tax code. This bill fails spectacularly on all three counts. They're cutting Medicaid and nutritional assistance food stamps to tens of millions of Americans in order to preserve tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. They're adding $3 trillion to the deficit with this bill. And lastly, they're gumming up the tax code with you don't have to pay taxes on tips.
Now, what about the folks who don't earn tips, you know, auto lending? I mean, again, on the three things that Americans care most about that they want the Congress to do, this bill fails spectacularly. Look, and that's going to show up in the polling pretty soon as Americans come to realize what it is that the House of Representatives just did.
The MeidasTouch Podcast · Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes · 22 May 2025
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So buckle up, America, and put your seat in the upright position, because with the passage of this bill, the golden age of America is ready for takeoff.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My Democrat colleagues have challenged why the deregulation of silencers is in this bill and why are we removing the $200 tax? Well, under the law, they are firearms and therefore protected by another law enacted in 1791 called our Second Amendment of our beloved Constitution.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed and neither shall it be taxed. Chief Justice John Marshall in 1819 declared that the power to tax includes the power to destroy. If you can tax it, then you can destroy it. You can raise the tax so high that almost no one can afford it, and then you really don't have a right at all.
But the Second Amendment is an unalienable constitutional right, God-given, that governments are required to protect, not to tax. The Supreme Court in the Heller decision of 2008 declared the Second Amendment to be an individual constitutional right, further protecting it from taxation, just like the right to speak and the right to vote.
This bill simply restores that right from over 90 years of draconian tax. My Democrat colleagues have asked, how did this get in the bill? What was the deal and who asked for it? No deal. I believe the speaker with the purest of motives simply wanted to restore a constitutional right. And who asked? Me, I asked. I yield.
Speaker, perhaps it's because it's now past 4 a.m., but I feel like I've entered the Twilight Zone. We have 13.7 million Americans, at least, who are going to lose their health insurance because of this bill. Another $500 billion worth of cuts to Medicare on top of that. And what is one of their last speakers talking about? A tax cut if you buy silencers. This is bizarre.
The reality is millions and millions of Americans are going to lose their health coverage, all to help subsidize tax cuts for billionaires, oh yes, and also tax cuts for those who buy gun silencers.
USA. USA.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Democrat leader is mistaken. We aren't currently in the dead of night. We are voting for the one big, beautiful bill. House will be in order. We are voting for the one big beautiful bill first thing in the morning because the relief for working families simply can't wait and will work until the job's done.
In this, you are to direct your comments to the chair.
House will be in order. As I said, Mr. Leader, we've been very patient. I just listened to the majority leader of the other side who directed all of his comments to the chair. It is important for the decorum of the institution for you to do the same.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's telling that President Trump and his cult followers have chosen to name their bill after its size and its looks instead of its contents and its values. They don't want anybody looking inside this monstrosity.
There's nothing beautiful or big about stripping 14 million Americans of their healthcare or removing food security from 11 million people, including 4 million kids. That's ugly. That's small.
I know Donald Trump has increased his net worth by more than $3 billion since taking office from his global crypto scam, and that yesterday he brought home a $400 million jumbo jet from the monarch dictator of Qatar, a flying constitutional violation packed with threats of espionage and surveillance.
But there's nothing big or beautiful about plundering the wealth of the people of America to give to the people who have already profited from Donald Trump's prior schemes.
We just verified with the Congressional Budget Office, and of the 13.7 million Americans who will lose their health care because of their bill, exactly zero are undocumented immigrants. So the complete artifice that the other side is attempting to convince you is that Almost 14 million Americans will lose their health care, but don't worry about it. They're all illegals.
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