Democratic Congress Member Garcia

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368 appearances 37 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard May 2025

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Congressman Tom Suozzi Exposes GOP Tax Bill Scam at Hearing · 14 May 2025 podcast
14 million people, you know, any individual stories that is of people like trying to get by, and they have some tragic thing happened in their family, and they somebody's got cancer, they get hit by a car, or somebody's got cerebral palsy, somebody's got dementia or something, you know, some major problem, and now they're gonna lose their health insurance. That's it's just, it's rotten.
I don't want to take up too much time on this, but let me just tell people, state and local tax deduction was the first deduction given to people in 1913. So when they first started the federal income tax code, they said, we're going to tax your income at the federal level. And the governors and the mayors said, don't do that. Don't do that.
We want to tax them at the local level because we've got to pay for the schools and garbage and things like that. We don't want you to tax the federal level. Just use tariffs the way you always used to in the old days.
They said, no, we're gonna deduct, we're gonna let you deduct your state and local taxes, the money you've already paid in taxes, from your income so you don't have to pay taxes on the taxes you've already paid. That was in place for 100 years. In 2017, Donald Trump and the Republicans capped that deduction at $10,000. That's a killer.
for people in New York and California and Illinois and Massachusetts and other places that have unions, other places that have low rates of uninsured people that insure our children, insure our adults. So we have higher taxes to pay for these. We have more mass transit, more infrastructure. So we have higher costs because of those things. Now they took it away.
They said, we're gonna cap it at $10,000. That made people's taxes actually go up. So a bunch of people came out and said, we're against this. We want to get the state and local tax deduction back again. President Trump came to Long Island in 2024 during the campaign and said, I'm going to get your salt back. I'm going to get it back. I'm going to make things better for people here.
We're going to get salt back. And a bunch of Republicans in this Congress came out and said, we're not voting for this bill unless you give us our state and local tax deduction back. And they said, you've double crossed us. You've only increased it from 10,000 to 15,000 for a person filing singly, or 30,000 if you're a married couple. And they said, this is an insult. This is unfair to us.
And it is unfair. So I'm hoping that these Republicans that have stood up and said, we're not voting for this unless we get solved, will stay strong and they will hold people's feet to the fire and get us our state and local tax deduction back again and again.
Just raise the taxes on the richest people in the country back to what it was under Clinton, what it was under Obama when the economy was booming. 37 back to 39.6, it will generate hundreds of billions of dollars.
The bottom line, some Republicans are going to try and say this bill is going to pay for itself. because we're gonna have so much economic growth, their whole trickle down thing, supply side economics that never has worked ever before, it's not gonna work this time. And the cuts that we're doing is gonna pay for, it's not gonna pay for itself. And how do we know it's not gonna pay for itself?
Because the Republicans are putting in this bill. an increase in the debt ceiling to allow the president to borrow $4 trillion. I know you hear these numbers, trillions, billions, millions, $4 trillion. The total debt of the United States of America right now is in about 30 some odd trillion dollars. They want to add $4 trillion to it. They want to increase it by 10% in just one year.
That's never happened before. It's the biggest increase in the deficit that's ever happened in the history of the country, just from these tax cuts that they're providing in this bill. So it's all... It's all phony baloney.
I mean, it's just really just it's heartbreaking how many people are going to have to suffer because of this bill and because of, as you said, the broken promises that have been made.
What do you think that you're going to have a fight in the House first over the next week? about whether to increase the state and local tax deduction or not. And people are going to try and get it increased. And there's going to be a bunch of other moderate Republicans who are saying, you're cutting Medicaid too much. You're cutting Medicaid too much.
Too many people in my district are going to suffer because of this. Then it's going to go over to the Senate where there's going to be even more pressure on the cuts to Medicaid that they're not going to want to cut Medicaid. So a lot of these Republicans may be walking the plank in the House only to have the Senate try and change it later on. Or
They're all going to walk in single file and do what the president asked them to do when he calls them up and says, hey, you got to do this.
Congratulations on the Webby.
The MeidasTouch Podcast · Republicans Caught Altering Evidence at Major Hearing · 11 May 2025 podcast
The document that you have up behind you is a misrepresentation of the actual post. It appears that you're trying to misrepresent a witness here.
Play this clip. Can you name a school where it has been confirmed that students are using litter boxes? Yes.
Can you name a school where it has been confirmed that students are using litter boxes? This was at the top of your press release. This was mentioned when you introduced this bill, created quite a stir. So I'm asking, can you name a school where it's been confirmed that there are litter boxes being provided to students?
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