'Greed, Corruption, And Tax Breaks For Billionaires': Jim McGovern Assails GOP Over Budget

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During remarks on the House floor Thursday, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) spoke about the Republican budget that ultimately passed the House early Thursday morning.

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00:00The gentleman yields back, the gentleman from Indiana Reserves, the gentleman from Massachusetts

00:04is recognized.

00:05Does the gentleman have any other speakers, or is she the final speaker?

00:08I'm prepared to close.

00:09May I ask how much time I have, Mr. Speaker?

00:11The gentleman has five and a half minutes.

00:13The gentleman has four minutes.

00:15Mr. Speaker, one of the previous Republican speakers got up and said, Rome is burning.

00:20I hate to tell him, but Republicans are in charge.

00:24And Trump is your Caesar.

00:27And so, you know, CBO just did an analysis of this budget, and they did an analysis of

00:34how it impacts the bottom 10 percent and the top 10 percent income earners in this country.

00:39And guess what?

00:40The bottom 10 percent gets screwed, and the top 10 percent get a big raise in terms of

00:46revenue, in terms of tax breaks.

00:48So let me end where I began, Mr. Speaker.

00:51This is about whose side you are on.

00:54Whose side are you on, Mr. Speaker?

00:56Because from where I stand, it looks like you and the entire Republican Party betrayed

01:01the American people to side with the billionaires.

01:04People are so, so tired of getting screwed over by a system that doesn't work for them.

01:11They are fed up, and they want change.

01:13They want us to make things better for regular, hardworking people, not just the rich and the powerful.

01:19And what Republicans' big ugly bill does is the exact opposite.

01:25Our colleagues and Trump are perpetuating the exact broken system that people hate and despise.

01:32More tax breaks for billionaires while regular people get screwed.

01:37More giveaways for the rich and powerful while moms and dads struggle to get by.

01:42More loopholes into the tax code for Wall Street while working families fall further and further behind.

01:49That's the Republican agenda.

01:51That's what you guys think is big and beautiful.

01:54Greed, corruption, and tax breaks for billionaires.

01:57You know, my state of Massachusetts funds states like Indiana where the gentlelady is from.

02:03We get back less than we give.

02:06And so how dare she or anyone else vote to steal our tax money and give it to billionaires?

02:12So no, no, we will not go quietly.

02:15And no, we will not give up.

02:17We will fight this cruel, corrupt, immoral bill every step of the way because the people we represent are counting on us.

02:26And we will never stop fighting for them.

02:28I urge every member of this House to vote hell no, never, absolutely not, on this terrible disgrace of a bill.

02:37I yield back.

02:38Gentleman yields back.

02:41Gentlelady from Indiana.

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