Democratic Congress Member Garcia

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Trump Witnesses Collapse Under Cross-Exam at Hearing · 15 May 2025 podcast
I would hope that we would have that humanity. The humanity to just check if this young man is okay. With that, I yield back. It's shameful.
The MeidasTouch Podcast · Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing · 14 May 2025 podcast
Does this tax bill continue the payroll tax on people's tips? Yes, it does. Overtime. The president said your overtime will be tax-free. Does this bill continue the payroll tax on overtime?
The president said he's going to remove taxes on Social Security. Does this bill remove taxes on Social Security benefits?
The president and the Republicans.
Mr. Barthold, that this legislation fails to extend the enhanced tax credits that lower the cost of insurance for millions of Americans who purchase their own coverage through the marketplace. That's correct. And when the Republicans permit these credits to expire in a mere seven months. What is the effect on health insurance premiums for those individuals that rely on the marketplace today?
Yes, sir. They go up about almost 8%, I believe is the specific calculation that you did. And is it true that this failure on the part of Republicans will raise premiums not just for those, that they'll raise them really for nearly everyone in the marketplace, not just for those who receive the subsidies? Okay. That's correct.
If my understanding is correct, failure to extend this policy will result in an increase in the number of uninsured Americans. Is that right? That's correct, sir.
You know, it's like it's like as they say, it's like bizarro world where you're just an. what completely two opposite worlds. You've got the Republicans saying the big, beautiful bill, and it's gonna improve the economy. It's gonna do all these great things. And then you have the Democrats like myself saying, this is gonna massively increase the deficit.
You say you wanna be the party working class, but you're cutting the taxes for the wealthiest people in the United States of America again. You're paying for it, by kicking people off of their health insurance, some of the people that need it the most, almost 14 million people estimated by the Congressional Budget Office.
And there's a whole bunch of provisions that they promised they were gonna do. For me, the state and local tax deduction is the big one that the president said, we're gonna get the state and local tax deduction back. And they're not doing it. They're only increasing it from 10,000 to 15,000, 30,000 if you're married.
But there's at least four Republicans that have come out and said, we're not voting for this bill unless you make it higher. So it's just, it's the same old divided system. why can't we just like sit down and work together with each other? Why do you have to reduce the taxes for people who make a million dollars a year from 39.6 down to 37? I mean, why? You know, they don't need it.
And you can pay for some other good stuff.
Well, Trump came out and said, you know, 100% of the tips are going to be yours. And so what's going to happen is you're going to have to continue to report your tips. You're going to have to pay your Social Security tax and the other taxes you pay, they're your payroll taxes. Your employer is going to have to pay those taxes.
And then when it comes time for your income tax at the end, they're going to say, oh, you don't have to pay the other taxes on those. But the taxes are
that you know and that's it's a wonderful thing to try and reduce people's taxes especially people on tips or people who are getting overtime same same thing you're going to still have to pay your payroll taxes but why can't we instead pay for this by increasing the taxes back to what they were before 2017 back to 39.6 for the people making a million dollars a year i don't make that doesn't make any sense to me i mean why can't we just
Why can't we work together? And how many times have we heard about the deficit? The deficit, the deficit's gonna destroy our country. It's our biggest threat that we face in our country, the deficit. They're increasing the deficit by $4 trillion. So to put that in perspective, the deficit in the past when we had to do like some big projects and stuff was 1.5 trillion.
They're gonna do a $4 trillion deficit in one year. It's gonna explode the deficit. It's just, I don't get it.
It's awful. You know, there are people that are on Medicaid. There are people that got the Affordable Care Act benefits when it was extended to their states. Like the chairman of this committee is from Missouri. And this guy, Senator Josh Hawley from Missouri, a big Republican, wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times yesterday and said, you know, we don't want to still be the corporatists.
in the Republican Party. Let's look out for the working families. And we passed a law, a constitutional amendment in Missouri to give them the right to have Medicaid used to pay for the Affordable Care Act for people at certain lower income levels. And they're gonna be cutting it from the federal government.
So they're gonna have to pay for it at the Missouri level if they wanna conform with their constitution. It's just nonsensical. Why would you make, think about that.
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