Republicans Ripped to Shreds as Disaster Bill Passes
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What are the implications of the new disaster budget bill?
It's not just Democrats, it's the entire country ripping these MAGA Republicans to shreds for passing this horrific budget in the middle of the night. When through the morning these proceedings, it's going to add trillions to the deficit, cut Medicaid, cut Medicare, take away supplemental nutrition assistance programs. It's going to take away rental assistance programs. It's going to give trillions of tax cuts for the billionaires. But also, don't worry, there will be tax exemptions for silencers and no more regulations in order to register your silencer. That was a major initiative that the MAGA Republicans pushed in this, and also to rename certain types of savings accounts as Trump accounts. Horrific stuff.
And the stock market and the bond markets are not reacting favorably to this horrific bill that just passed in the House. It still needs to pass in the Senate, so we'll see what happens there. But here you have MAGA Republican Speaker of the House, MAGA Mike Johnson, praising his dear leader in terms that we would normally see in Kim Jong-un's North Korea. Play this clip.
On the world stage. Today wouldn't be possible without the leadership of arguably the most powerful and the most successful and the most respected president in the modern era of United States. Our Democrat colleagues mocked the objective truth. We were delivered unified government, my friends, in November. The White House, the Senate, and the House were delivered to the party on this side of the aisle. So you can laugh all you want, all right?
and spoken like a true huckster MAGA Republican Congress member Bean. Let's play this clip.
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.
The MAGA Republicans were also bragging earlier this morning that they are removing the free method that exists to file your taxes in order to help the businesses that want to control that market. That was a big initiative for them to get rid of the IRS free direct file system. Play this clip.
Regardless of zip code. In addition, we are bringing an end to the unauthorized, wasteful, and redundant IRS direct file program, which directly contradicts taxpayers' best interests. This moment is years in the making, and we now have the opportunity to deliver on the job Americans elected us to do in a fiscally responsible way.
And here's MAGA Republican Congress member Clyde on his initiative to remove regulations on silencers for guns, silencers that have regulations that have been around for like 100 years. Here, play this clip.
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.
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