On Thursday, Rep. Gabe Amo (D-RI) spoke about the cuts to Medicaid and food assistance programs in the Republicans' budget after it passed the House early Thursday morning.
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00:00Good morning, everybody. It's just after 7 a.m. and after a marathon sprint to enact their harmful, big, ugly bill, Republicans passed their legislation that's going to cut health care, hurt so many of our communities by denying food assistance and deny college access to our poor students on top of raising costs.
00:30By cutting clean energy efforts and doing so much harm, like eliminating attacks on silencers and not having them be registered. Just really boneheaded stuff. And we have to keep going.
00:46This fight will now take us to the Senate and we're going to need your voices, your energy, your passion, your spirits high and loud as we articulate the values that we stand for, that we don't want people to be poorer.
01:01We don't want people to be sicker. We don't want people to be hungrier. And we want a gateway for everybody to have opportunity to have that solid foundation in our country.
01:11So we'll keep pushing and I'll stay right along with you because those values we share are so much more important than the greed, the enrichment of billionaires against the people.
01:25We'll keep pushing and I'll stay right along with you.
01:44And I'll be asking for...