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Teresa Leger Fernandez Tears Into House GOP For Not Standing Up To The Trump Administration
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5/1/2025
During a House floor debate on Tuesday, Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM) discussed the House Republican's response to the Trump Administration.
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I will turn to the business before us. Representative Rory and I agreed on how we
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opened this, but not on much more this morning, because we see a different view on this 100 day
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that is marking Trump's service in office. A hundred days of chaos, corruption, and economic
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sabotage. And after these 100 days, House Republicans are wasting time on cynical
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Congressional Review Act resolutions instead of addressing the economic and constitutional
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crisis facing American families. A hundred days of economic pain as Trump's on again, off again,
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temper tantrum of tariffs, tank the dollar, drive up prices, destroy the markets, and threaten a
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recession. A hundred days of chaos in the White House where Secretary Hexas texts war plans to
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journalists and the administration belittles allies while embracing dictators like Putin. A hundred
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days of corruption as billionaires like Musk and Doge take Americans' personal social security data
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and fire the employees we need to process those social security checks. They fired the auditors
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and inspections so no one is there to sound the alarm when Musk steers contracts to his own companies.
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Talk about self-dealing. One hundred days of courtroom drama with courts, district appellate, and even the
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Supreme Court saying Trump's actions are likely illegal, unconstitutional, and must be paused to avoid
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irreparable harm to the American people. While Trump defies the law and damages our economy, what are House
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Republicans doing? This week and into the next couple, Republicans are plotting to rip health care away
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from millions of Americans to fund tax cuts for 759 billionaires. Republicans will sacrifice health care
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for 72 million children, pregnant women, seniors, and people with disabilities who rely on Medicaid
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to give tax cuts to the 759 richest people in America. And when they destroy Medicaid, folks,
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they destroy rural hospitals, they destroy health care centers that everyone in the community uses,
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not just those on Medicaid. But Trump and Republicans want to give tax cuts to the biggest corporations as
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well. So they have to cut funding from low-income college students trying to get ahead
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and steal food from the mouths of hungry children. And that hurts our farmers and ranchers too.
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These are the hungry children that ranking member McGovern fights for every day. Millions of Americans
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will suffer so the billionaires and the biggest corporations can get more, more power, more money,
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more control, and more influence in Washington, D.C. Americans are tired of how the system
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is rigged against working and middle-class families. They know the rich are winning and regular Americans
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don't seem to have a chance. The Republican budget and their reconciliation bill, their tax cuts,
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are going to make sure the rich always win. Now Trump's approval ratings are the lowest
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of any president in the last 80 years. And the latest poll released today, Americans give him F.
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He is getting F's on the economy. He is getting F's all over the place. Americans disapprove of Trump
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because he's destroying our economy and betraying. He is betraying his promise to lower costs from day one.
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Americans are demanding we put an end to Trump's tyranny. Republican voters, Republican voters are showing
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up at the few town halls that are Republicans are brave enough to have and they're yelling at their
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representatives. They're saying, do something. Well, Americans want us to have the courage,
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the courage to stand up to Trump. House Republicans are doing the opposite. Hidden in the rule,
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we are debating today is a provision that will cover up Secretary Hegseth's texting of classified war
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plans. Republicans won't even let Democrats ask for information about what's happening at the
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Department of Defense. No courage, just capitulation. Today, instead of helping lower costs for working
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families, Republicans are pushing partisan bills to overturn environmental laws that protect our air
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and water. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Costs are going up. Markets are tanked. Court orders are being
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ignored. And we're talking about a rule that we will hear later about today that we're going to spend all this
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time on on the floor of this House and it's not going anywhere in the Senate. Right? We are wasting
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time. The precious time that we have on this House floor to do something. I urge my colleagues to oppose
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this rule and I reserve it.
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