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Tammy Duckworth Rails Against The Big Beautiful Bill: It Will Put Us In ‘An Economic Downward Spiral’
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6/9/2025
During Wednesday’s Senate Democrats’ ‘Ask Me Anything’ Virtual Event, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) discussed the Big Beautiful Bill's effect on the national debt.
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how are you doing i'm doing great good let me move this out of the way amazing you got it
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thank you ccm bye thank you
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how awesome is uh senator cortez mastow she and i were in the class of 2016 together hi everyone
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um i have a call a question and on facebook what do you feel is the worst of this bill that we
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should be worrying about well there's so much in this bill that is so bad um it begins with
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how much it adds to our deficit uh in the short term uh upwards of two trillion dollars in the
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long term over 30 years as much as 47 to 50 trillion dollars that will put this country
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into an economic downward spiral that uh will be hard to recover from and i certainly don't want
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my 10 year old and my seven year old to have to be paying back a 47 trillion dollar uh a national
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debt um but within the bill itself uh in giving those tax cuts in in putting that deficit on the backs of
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the american people um it cuts significant amounts from medicaid and and frankly medicaid isn't just
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about people uh uh who are on the lower end of the economic spectrum it's about all of us because
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hospitals rely on medicaid dollars in order to function i sat down with the illinois hospital
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association and many of them said if these medicaid dollars go away we are the last hospital standing
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in a tri-county area in a quad county area uh that is serving people in this rural community and if
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these medicaid dollars go away and and people no longer have access to them our hospital will shut down
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and in addition to losing health care you will also be losing a major employer in the region
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my next question is from don don on facebook what are we doing to keep nih funding for cancer research
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well we're fighting them on this bill we're going to push to get that funding restored we're trying
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very hard to have it restored the president is trying to send over what's called a rescissions
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package which is uh his attempt to formalize the fun the cuts that doge uh made to nih funding uh so
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we're going to fight him on both the resistance package which is senate speak and and legislative
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speak for him trying to finalize uh what elon musk did by taking a chainsaw to the nih budget
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and it also at the same time in this bill in this budget bill is a huge cut to the national institutes of
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health um this is where we do the cutting edge research on cancer on all sorts of illnesses
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and we lead the world in this and you know what happens when we cut nih funding all these laboratories
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shut down and then we lose these scientists already we have uh other nations in europe in asia that are
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wooing our scientists saying hey you know what you're losing your nih funding come to us we'll give
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you a lab for 10 years for 20 years and you can do your research but but move to japan move to
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switzerland move to germany come here and we don't want that kind of a brain drain to happen so we need
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to make sure that we continue to fund the nih um so rachel bender's audience has asked what exactly
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is a budget reconciliation bill this is basically a way to uh uh put forward the the the nation's budget
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it's it's basically trying to reconcile between what the house is putting forward and what the senate is
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putting forward um and we need to make sure that uh whatever the how all the bad stuff that's in the
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house bill we need to go after it um and we need to make sure that uh we take out all of the really
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negative cuts uh to funding programs whether it is for ag whether it's for medicare medicaid there's
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significant cuts also to veterans services in this bill they basically it's a way for them to come
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through and just slash all sorts of funding and they're using it to get around there's um the
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parliamentarian of the senate which is be a form of procedure um and uh frankly they're not supposed
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to do that it's basically the nuclear option uh riding roughshod over the minority uh not listening
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to senate procedures and following for senate protocols and it's their way of shoving essentially
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trillions of dollars of debt down taxpayers throats in order to you know support the lifestyle of
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trump's billionaire buddies at the expense of families uh middle-income families they're just
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trying to get by kirk on facebook how can we stop the provision that defunds the university centers of
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excellence that focus on services and self-advocacy for people with disabilities these are some of the
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most marginalized people in our country it's unconscionable to me that we would become a country
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that doesn't ensure people with disabilities have what they need to be productive members of society
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i agree with you one thousand percent and i'm going to fight every chance that i get this is one of
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the places that we're going to push back as hard as we can on this bill to try to restore that funding
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uh it's it's also it's about the centers of excellence but it is also about uh medicaid
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programs and and and social security programs and medicare programs and health care uh services and
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it's also about wrap around services so the people with disabilities can get the support services that
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they need so that they can leave the house and go to work or to school but the centers of excellence
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are critically important for moving the agenda moving policy around the country to support persons
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with disabilities it's how under these these programs and advocacy groups that we move from
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institutionalized people as what we norm as the basic thing that we normally do to actually
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understanding that people do better when they stay there in their own homes when they live in the
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community now if you want to be in a group home setting you can choose to do that but really
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what people with disability want to do is live their lives like everybody else in our communities
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and if that is the best for you you should be able to do that but that shift in how we treat people
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with disabilities happened in the centers of excellence and happened with advocacy groups who
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stepped forward many of whom got training in those centers of excellence so we're going to do everything
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we can to push back this is all part of the cuts that they're using and they're basically cutting
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services for persons with disabilities in order to fund tax cuts for the mar-a-lago crowd and that's
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simply not acceptable and now it's my great pleasure to introduce senator patty murray um my good friend
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uh she is uh the person leading our fight in this uh she is uh pushing as hard as she can and trying
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every procedure that we can and she is our quarterback among all the democrats to push back on on this fight
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so without further ado senator patty murray of washington hi patty it's all yours
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