AOC Slams GOP Budget Bill: When The People Wake Up ‘There Will Be Consequences To Pay For This’

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On Thursday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spoke on the House floor about the proposed reconciliation budget, the bill ultimately passed in the House early that morning.

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00:00Thank you so much, and I thank the ranking member for yielding his time.

00:0913.7 million Americans.

00:1413.7 million Americans are the number of people in this country

00:21whose health care are going to be stripped in this bill.

00:26Now, Republicans are going to try to tell you every single distraction in the book from that essential number.

00:35I want people at home to understand that Medicaid and the federal matching funds for Medicaid

00:42can make up 30 to 40 percent of some of the state budgets that we have going on back in your home.

00:50Republicans have put this bill together, rushed it together in a matter of hours on the back of a napkin,

01:00shaking it, walking out of the White House, and brought it right here to this floor.

01:04They are defunding Planned Parenthood.

01:07They are ending tons of Medicaid coverage for 13.7 million Americans, including Affordable Care Act coverage as well.

01:16And if you want to get an abortion and have a silver plan on a health care plan that you paid for,

01:22you will also be affected by this legislation as well.

01:28Also, allowing suppressors on guns to be deregulated to some of the largest amounts that we have seen since the 1930s.

01:38This is just a Christmas bill.

01:40This is a Christmas tree.

01:42I yield a generality to show 30 seconds.

01:44And so I want people to understand, for my Republican colleagues who are sure what is in and not in this bill,

01:52in this process that has been this rushed, when you wake up in the morning,

01:56you will realize that you voted to defund Planned Parenthood and to take away health care from 13.7 million Americans.

02:04And when this country wakes up in the morning, there will be consequences to pay for this.

02:10And I yield back.

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