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Veronica Escobar Reads Quote From Josh Hawley To Slam GOP's 'One Big Beautiful' Reconciliation Bill
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5/16/2025
At today's House Budget Committee hearing, Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) tore into the GOP reconciliation budget bill.
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With that, to my friend and fellow Texan Veronica Escobar for three minutes.
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Thank you Mr. Chairman. I'd like to address the American people because here we are on the
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precipice of passing the biggest tax breaks in American history for billionaires and they are
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being funded by cutting services and programs to the American people, to hard-working Americans.
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In fact, this bill represents the biggest cuts to Medicaid and nutrition programs in
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American history. And Mr. Chairman, I remember when we were here debating the bill at the onset
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and nearly every Republican said, oh no, there will be no cuts to Medicaid. That's not what we're doing.
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But we know for a fact and we stated that that's what was going to happen. And in fact,
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that's why many of my Republican colleagues are afraid to face their own constituents at town halls
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because the American people know that they can see through this smoke and mirrors. And in fact,
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Republicans are still saying that this bill only impacts able-bodied Americans who refuse to work.
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Nope, not true. And you don't have to take my word for it. Let me read you what a Republican has said.
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We're not, and this is a quote, we're not talking here about just work requirements. The House goes much,
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much, much further than that. This is real Medicaid benefit cuts. I can't support that. No Republican
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should support that. We're the party of the working class and we need to act like it, end quote.
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Who was that? That was Republican Senator Josh Hawley. He even called this bill a tax on the poor
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and on hardworking Americans. So I agree with most of what Josh Hawley said. I would disagree that
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Republicans are the party of the working class. Democrats have supported paid family and medical
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leave, affordable high quality child care, universal pre-K, the expanded child tax credit,
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health care expansion, making the wealthy pay their fair share. Every Republican last Congress
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voted against that. So they're not the party of the working poor or the hardworking Americans. And this
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bill doesn't just strip benefits for hardworking Americans. It hurts future generations by adding
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seven trillion dollars to the national debt. They're literally borrowing money from the future so that
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billionaires can get their big tax breaks. That's not working or protecting hardworking Americans.
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That is crushing hardworking Americans, making their lives harder. This bill doesn't make America better.
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It makes Americans sicker, poorer, and hungrier. That's why we will all be voting no. We urge some of our
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colleagues to listen to their own constituents who do not want them to pass this bill. Mr. Chairman, I yield back.
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