Democratic Congress Member Garcia

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes · 22 May 2025 podcast

They're all people who are defrauding the system. It's completely false and every independent source has verified that it is false.

Gentleman yields back. Gentlelady from Indiana.

Thank you so much. And I thank the ranking member for yielding his time. 13.7 million Americans. 13.7 million Americans are the number of people in this country whose health care are going to be stripped in this bill. Now Republicans are going to try to tell you every single distraction in the book from that essential number.

I want people at home to understand that Medicaid and the federal matching funds for Medicaid can make up 30 to 40% of some of the state budgets that we have going on back in your home. Republicans have put this bill together, rushed it together in a matter of hours on the back of a napkin, shaken it, walking out of the White House, and brought it right here to this floor.

They are defunding Planned Parenthood. They are ending tons of Medicaid coverage for 13.7 million Americans, including Affordable Care Act coverage as well. And if you want to get an abortion and have a silver plan on a health care plan that you paid for, you will also be affected by this legislation as well.

also allowing suppressors on guns to be deregulated to some of the largest amounts that we have seen since the 1930s. This is just a Christmas bill. This is just a Christmas treat.

And so I want people to understand, for my Republican colleagues who are sure what is in and not in this bill, In this process that has been this rushed, when you wake up in the morning, you will realize that you voted to defund Planned Parenthood and to take away healthcare from 13.7 million Americans. And when this country wakes up in the morning, there will be consequences to pay for this.

And I yield back.

Breaking yet another promise, Republicans are cutting Medicare by $500 billion. On October 1st of this year, every Medicare health care provider will see a 4% cut, and that will occur year after year after year as seniors try to find someone who will accept Medicare. And on January the first, millions of Americans who rely on the Affordable Care Act lose their access to a family physician.

Medicaid for those in nursing homes for half the babies born in my hometown of Austin, cut. Almost 14 million Americans losing their access to health care. And the new Trump school voucher sabotage plan atop state vouchers incentivizes removing students from public schools.

Meanwhile, our national debt soaring by trillions from Republicans who talk fiscal responsibility but serving their cult leader The deficit hawks have become chicken hawks tonight in submission to Trump, the self-described king of debt, all to reward billionaires with even more tax breaks.

The MeidasTouch Podcast · Republicans Crumble at Live Hearing as Scam Is Exposed · 22 May 2025 podcast

Hold on. We're talking about in the context of immigration cases.

Yeah, that's correct.

The judge can set the security at whatever level he wants. What's typically happening in these cases is he's just waving it. No one's putting it up, and they're getting this injunction that applies nationwide, which is the concern. I hear you. Are you okay with the nationwide injunction issued by one single federal judge? We'll get to that part, Mr. Jordan. Okay.

I just want to say the situation we're trying to address is what's been happening around the country. You didn't write it that way. As you know, a single federal judge gets cases brought to the judge. They waive the security and then issue a decision that applies nationwide to all immigrants who are in that situation.

My amendment would strike an especially harsh provision in this bill that is rooted in cruelty, not policy. This simple, straightforward amendment would strike the work requirement provision in this big, bad, ugly bill that lowers the age of what we call a dependent child from 18 to 7. From 18 years old to 7 years old.

So I'm abundantly clear, we're saying that eight, nine and 10 year olds are no longer considered dependent children. Where did this come from? Why is this necessary? Since when is a first grader not a dependent child? Preventing families with children as young as seven from losing food assistance. That is what we're debating here.

I will hand the mic over, yield my time to any of my Republican colleagues that want to address the amount of money that their tax paying citizens are going to have to pay in increased premiums for their healthcare.

If anybody wants to mention, we have the numbers, everybody here has the numbers, how much your constituents are going to have to pay more every year in healthcare because of this bill. I don't know the numbers for my district. It's going to be a 50% increase, over $400 in my district.

And that's actually not even close to how much in many of the Republican districts there's going to be an increase. I would yield the mic.

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