Nancy Pelosi: This Is Why It Would Be Bad For The U.S. To Pass GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill

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At a rally, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi slammed the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill.

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00:00For health care, for working families, and for children everywhere, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.

00:16Thank you all. Do you know how important you are?

00:19I hope you know your power, because all of the things that we have talked about,

00:24whether the Affordable Care Act, or expanding the subsidies, or saving the Affordable Care Act when they try to go,

00:31or protecting Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, would not happen without the outside mobilization.

00:39We can just do so much in the Congress.

00:42And in that regard, I wish you could have seen, or perhaps you did on TV,

00:46Hakeem Jeffries testified today before the Rules Committee.

00:50It was spectacular, but you heard some of it this evening.

00:53Early in the morning, or in the night, this has been a long engagement.

01:00Our chair, our chair, soon to be once and future chair of the Budget Committee,

01:05Brendan Boyle, led the way, and he was fabulous.

01:09Just spectacular. You're going to hear from him now.

01:12And again, we can do what we can do.

01:15But the outside mobilization, inside maneuvering, outside mobilization.

01:19Now let's just talk about what's happening here.

01:20This is a Republican, this is a Republican reverse Robin Hood.

01:27They are taking from people who should have it, where we need to help,

01:32and giving it to the richest people in America.

01:35Just as they did in 2017, the last time they had the White House and the majority in the Congress,

01:43they put a tax bill that gave 83% of the benefits to the top 1%.

01:53To the top 1%.

01:57It's sinful. It's immoral. It's wrong.

02:01But let me just say this, because I think it's important to know,

02:03we're saying they're cutting Medicaid and SNAP and all that to pay for their tax cut.

02:10No. They're taking their tax cut no matter what.

02:13They don't care if it's paid for or not.

02:15What they're trying to do is undo governance for the people.

02:19Undo Medicare. Undo Medicaid. Undo Medicare.

02:23So understand, this is a bigger plot.

02:26This is a bigger plot than their usual tax cut.

02:29Now last time, oh, they're so fiscally sound.

02:32We can't feed the children because it's going to add to the national debt.

02:37No, we can give tax breaks to the richest people in America.

02:39It added $2 trillion in 2017.

02:45It added $2 trillion to the national debt.

02:50This time, chicken feed.

02:53They're going to add $4.5 trillion to the national debt.

02:57And at the same time, use it at the same time,

03:04talk about cutting.

03:06Now, $1 trillion, over $700 billion from Medicaid.

03:11$300 billion from SNAP.

03:15Just that.

03:17$1 trillion.

03:18Food out of the mouths of babies.

03:20Money in the pocket of billionaires.

03:22It's just plain wrong.

03:24But we have to be hopeful because in 17, when they did what they did,

03:30in 18, with the help of so many of you,

03:33we were able to have 10,000 events around the country

03:35to save the Affordable Care Act.

03:38Now we have to save Medicaid.

03:41Hands off our Medicaid.

03:44Hands off our Medicaid.

03:47Hands off our Medicaid.

03:49No tax break for billionaires.

03:52You know, some of these billionaires, they say,

03:55oh, I'm so tired of hearing Democrats say,

03:58no tax breaks for billionaires.

04:03You're tired of it?

04:04Well, we're tired of tax breaks for billionaires.

04:06You want to be tired?

04:08You ain't seen nothing yet.

04:09Because in 18 months, with your help, just as we did in 17,

04:13when 18, we won back the house.

04:16In 18, we stopped them in their tracks because they couldn't do anything more.

04:22They didn't have the house.

04:23So in 18 months, Hakeem Jeffries will be the speaker of the house.

04:28The speaker of the house, and it will be the end of what they plan to do.

04:33But we can't do it without you.

04:35So as I say, know your power.

04:39You said we can end gun violence.

04:41You probably know this.

04:43Thank you for that.

04:44And what they have in this bill, there's a $200 tax on silencers.

04:56It's been there for almost 100 years, since like 1930.

05:01$2,000 tax on silencers.

05:03They're taking it off.

05:05They're taking it off.

05:07It's going to take, it's going to bring, lift over a billion dollars.

05:15Is that wrong?

05:16I mean, it's silencers.

05:19Over 100, about 100 years, they're doing that.

05:23They're going after a woman's right to choose everything that is about family.

05:27So thank you for families over billionaires, babies over billionaires.

05:32Thank you, Planned Parenthood.

05:33Thank all of you for what you are doing.

05:35Tax of rich, tax of rich, tax of rich, hands off our Medicaid, hands off our Medicaid.

05:52And let me just say this one last thing, because people say, oh, it's just for poor people.

05:57One of them said, if you believe this, one of the Republicans said, why do people think

06:01that they should have Medicaid?

06:02Oh, really?

06:03So here's the thing.

06:06People say, oh, it's for poor children.

06:08That would be justification enough.

06:10That's our moral responsibility.

06:12But it's a middle class benefit as well, because what it does is for families that need long-term

06:18care for seniors, they have to have that.

06:22And if families have people with disabilities, they need to have that, whatever their income

06:29level.

06:29So this is about everybody in our country being affected.

06:32We just have to make sure, and my daughter, Christina, making the calls to Republican districts from

06:42their own constituents.

06:44Nothing is more eloquent to a member of Congress than the voice of their own constituents.

06:49So tell your friends who live in Republican districts to call them and tell them, we know, we know

06:58what you're doing so that they know to be afraid.

07:02They may be afraid of what's-his-name, but they've got to be afraid of you, too.

07:08Thank you all.

07:09Hands off our Medicaid.

07:10Hey, hey, ho, ho, healthcare cuts out, got to go, hey, hey, ho, ho, healthcare cuts out,

07:21got to go, hey, hey, ho, ho.

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