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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00:00Democratic Whip, Catherine Clark.
00:07All right, some of us started out this day together.
00:11Who is there in front of the Capitol at 1 a.m.?
00:14We see you, okay?
00:16And you are the perfect antidote for what we have going on behind me.
00:22So we're going to have no more hearings in the middle of the night,
00:26and we're not going to have a government of, by, and for the billionaires.
00:31We're going to bring a little people power here to D.C.
00:36So when you try and sneak a billionaire tax scam past the American people,
00:42you try to yada yada over the details.
00:45You know, details like 14 million people getting kicked off of Medicaid.
00:5214 million people.
00:54It gets worse.
00:5742 million people, kids, seniors, working people,
01:03having their SNAP benefits reduced.
01:0642 million people.
01:09And now we found out, as Brendan Boyle told us,
01:13Medicare, which just yesterday the president was across the street and he said,
01:20we will never touch Medicare.
01:22Well, $500 million, a billion dollars, half a trillion dollars,
01:29sure feels like you're hurting Medicare to me.
01:32And what are they hoping?
01:35That we're not going to notice?
01:37That we are just going to somehow wake up and not have health care, not be feeding hungry people in our communities?
01:46Well, you're here to tell them the American people are watching.
01:50And this movement is fighting back.
01:53And we'll meet them in the rain.
01:55We'll meet them in the shine.
01:57We'll meet them at 1 a.m. or 1 p.m.
02:00We'll be there.
02:01And they have shown their hand to us.
02:05They have shown us how they prioritize you.
02:10And they proved once again that they work for the billionaire class.
02:15Elon gave them $277 million in campaign funds.
02:21He expects a return on his investment.
02:26And they're going to pay for it by cutting women's health care, cutting children's health care,
02:32taking groceries away from families and seniors and disabled Americans.
02:39And I see a lot of Planned Parenthood shirts out here.
02:44So let's talk about that because that's something else they stuck in there.
02:49They know they know that we have had the Hyde Amendment for decades,
02:54that no federal money goes to abortion care.
02:58But that didn't stop them.
03:00They went in this bill and said they're going to take every single penny of federal funding,
03:06Medicaid funding, all the federal funding from Planned Parenthood.
03:10You know what that does?
03:12It translates into 600 clinics around this country that will close, that serve 2 million patients.
03:22While 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.
03:33And they're trying to tell us that they are going to end big abortion and defund Planned Parenthood.
03:40We are going to say not on our watch, not on our watch.
03:44So they think we aren't paying attention.
03:47And then they're counting on us forgetting about this between now and the midterms.
03:53But I know that each and every one of us is going to remind them every single day.
03:58They work for us.
04:00This is our democracy.
04:03Health care in this country should be a right and not a privilege.
04:07And we are going to ensure that we hold them accountable.
04:12I couldn't be happier to be in this fight with you.
04:15Thank you so much for being here.
04:17You have the power to make the change we need.
04:23The people united will never be divided.
04:27The people united will never be divided.