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‘The Republicans Are In Disarray’: Frank Pallone Says GOP Knows Budget Will Harm Their Constituents
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5/7/2025
During a House Democratic press briefing on Tuesday, Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) spoke about the Republicans' budget resolution.
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Energy and Commerce Committee, Frank Pallone.
00:02
Thank you, Brendan, and thanks to all our leadership and ANG and all of us involved here today.
00:10
I'm going to take a cue from you.
00:12
You said that you just need one or two from the Philadelphia area.
00:17
On the other side of the river, I have three.
00:19
And we could just use those three and maybe one more from Philadelphia, and we'd be there with the four.
00:25
And believe me, I'm trying to get them.
00:27
I don't know how easy that's going to be.
00:30
Look, I think it's clear to most of you that the Republicans are in disarray on our way over.
00:36
They were meeting this morning trying to figure out what to do in the Energy and Commerce Committee.
00:40
I saw one of them leave the room as we were on our way over here.
00:44
And they're in disarray because many of them know that their constituents would be negatively impacted by these Medicaid cuts,
00:52
whether it's in nursing homes or it's people who just lose their health insurance or people with disabilities.
00:58
All of these things they're very well aware of are going to have an incredibly negative impact on their constituents' health care.
01:06
But they all voted for this reconciliation bill that, as far as the Energy and Commerce Committee is concerned,
01:13
says that we have to cut $880 billion.
01:16
And there's no way to reach that.
01:19
The CBO has told us there's no way to reach that without most of it coming from Medicaid.
01:25
And, you know, all three of my New Jersey guys have said at some point that they don't want to cut Medicaid.
01:32
And so what we're saying is, great, here's the opportunity.
01:37
You just go down there and you sign this discharge petition,
01:40
and it'll make sure that Medicaid and SNAP is not included in the reconciliation bill.
01:46
But, of course, they're probably not going to do that because they know that the reconciliation bill requires these cuts
01:52
in order to achieve the tax cuts that they want to do for the very wealthy, for billionaires,
01:57
and for large corporate interests, and so they're in a dilemma.
02:02
We're going to make their dilemma easier by saying just sign this discharge petition, and we'll be fine.
02:08
Medicaid will be fine.
02:10
SNAP will be fine.
02:11
And it's kind of like, you know, throwing down the glove.
02:14
Here's your opportunity.
02:16
Take it.
02:17
And then we will believe what you've been saying.
02:20
So I'm just, you know, we're just going to keep this up until we get there
02:25
because we do not want to see these Medicaid cuts or these SNAP cuts that are so – would be so devastating.
02:31
And with that, we yield now to the ranking member of the Agriculture Committee who's going to talk about the SNAP cuts.
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