On Thursday, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) spoke on the House floor about the Big Beautiful Reconciliation bill, which ultimately passed early Thursday morning.
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00:00I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for yielding.
00:14I'm grateful for his leadership and the leadership of the Rules Committee Democrats who are fighting
00:19back against these massive tax giveaways to billionaires and corporations raking in record
00:25profits.
00:26Mr. Speaker, the American people are getting squeezed by reckless tariffs that are raising
00:30prices on every family, and it's only going to get worse.
00:34With prices still too high, I don't understand how my Republican colleagues can justify taking
00:39food off of the table for women, children, and families.
00:44While so many working families are struggling, I don't understand how they can justify a tax
00:48bill that only makes life easier for billionaires like Elon Musk.
00:52In the dark of night, they want to pass this GOP tax scam.
00:56We saw today that the President has said that a vote against this legislation represents
01:01an ultimate betrayal.
01:03The real betrayal, Mr. Speaker, is to the working people of this country who will pay the price
01:08so that billionaires can pay less in taxes.
01:11Mr. Speaker, our friends on the other side of the aisle said that they wouldn't cut Medicaid,
01:15and that's exactly what this bill does.
01:18They said that they would end taxes on tips, but they forgot to mention that the trade-off
01:23is that you'll lose your health care.
01:25The American people didn't sign up for these broken promises.
01:27They asked their elected officials to work together to lower costs.
01:32My colleagues in the House Democratic Caucus are waiting for these so-called reasonable Republicans
01:37to join us.
01:38Let's focus on bringing down the cost of housing, rent, gas, and groceries.
01:43And let's stop rewarding billionaires at the expense of the middle class.