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‘The American People Are Watching’: Katherine Clark Warns GOP Of Public Scrutiny Amid Budget Talks
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5/22/2025
During a House Democratic press briefing, Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) slammed the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill, which ultimately passed early Thursday morning.
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Democratic Whip, Catherine Clark.
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All right, some of us started out this day together.
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Who is there in front of the Capitol at 1 a.m.?
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We see you, okay?
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And you are the perfect antidote for what we have going on behind me.
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So we're going to have no more hearings in the middle of the night,
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and we're not going to have a government of, by, and for the billionaires.
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We're going to bring a little people power here to D.C.
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So when you try and sneak a billionaire tax scam past the American people,
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you try to yada yada over the details.
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You know, details like 14 million people getting kicked off of Medicaid.
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14 million people.
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It gets worse.
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42 million people, kids, seniors, working people,
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having their SNAP benefits reduced.
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42 million people.
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And now we found out, as Brendan Boyle told us,
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Medicare, which just yesterday the president was across the street and he said,
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we will never touch Medicare.
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Well, $500 million, a billion dollars, half a trillion dollars,
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sure feels like you're hurting Medicare to me.
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And what are they hoping?
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That we're not going to notice?
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That we are just going to somehow wake up and not have health care, not be feeding hungry people in our communities?
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Well, you're here to tell them the American people are watching.
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And this movement is fighting back.
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And we'll meet them in the rain.
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We'll meet them in the shine.
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We'll meet them at 1 a.m. or 1 p.m.
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We'll be there.
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And they have shown their hand to us.
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They have shown us how they prioritize you.
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And they proved once again that they work for the billionaire class.
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Elon gave them $277 million in campaign funds.
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He expects a return on his investment.
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And they're going to pay for it by cutting women's health care, cutting children's health care,
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taking groceries away from families and seniors and disabled Americans.
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And I see a lot of Planned Parenthood shirts out here.
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So let's talk about that because that's something else they stuck in there.
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They know they know that we have had the Hyde Amendment for decades,
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that no federal money goes to abortion care.
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But that didn't stop them.
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They went in this bill and said they're going to take every single penny of federal funding,
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Medicaid funding, all the federal funding from Planned Parenthood.
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You know what that does?
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It translates into 600 clinics around this country that will close, that serve 2 million patients.
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While we have an OBGYN crisis in this country, we don't have enough places for rural people and underserved communities to go get primary care.
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And they're trying to tell us that they are going to end big abortion and defund Planned Parenthood.
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We are going to say not on our watch, not on our watch.
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So they think we aren't paying attention.
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And then they're counting on us forgetting about this between now and the midterms.
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But I know that each and every one of us is going to remind them every single day.
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They work for us.
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This is our democracy.
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Health care in this country should be a right and not a privilege.
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And we are going to ensure that we hold them accountable.
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I couldn't be happier to be in this fight with you.
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Thank you so much for being here.
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You have the power to make the change we need.
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The people united will never be divided.
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The people united will never be divided.
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