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GOP's Budget Will 'Make Us All Poorer': Khanna Slams Big Beautiful Bill That 'Explodes Deficits'
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During remarks on the House floor, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) tore into the GOP's budget.
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Mr. Speaker, one of the largest challenges our country faces is exploding deficits.
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The Republican budget would add $2.4 trillion over 10 years to the existing deficits. Let me
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show this chart. This chart, the yellow line, shows the existing deficits as they currently
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are projected. The Republicans would take those existing deficits and add over 10 years $2.4
00:37
trillion. Now, Ray Dalio and Jamie Dimon have said this is a disaster, that the bond markets
00:45
are afraid. Why are the bond markets afraid? Because they know that the Fed would engage
00:51
in quantitative easing, buying up more treasury bonds as people outside view the treasuries
00:57
is more risky, and this will lower the value of the dollar, and it will make basically
01:03
all Americans poorer. But people are tired of just hearing one side bash the other side about
01:11
deficits and no one doing anything about it. And so today we are introducing a plan, a real
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plan, to lower deficits in America. This plan would take the deficit down over the next 10
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years to below 3 percent of GDP. The historical average over the last 40, 50 years has been
01:32
under 4 percent of GDP. The Republican plan, by the way, independent analysis, takes the deficits
01:39
to 7 to 8.6 percent of GDP. That's the highest it's ever been in peace time. Our plan would
01:46
take it back down to under 4 percent. Here you see the Republican deficits. Here you see the
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current deficits. Here you see our plan, which would reduce deficits by 12 trillion dollars.
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Now you say, how are we going to do this deficit reduction? Where are the spending cuts and where
02:04
are the revenue generators? It's pretty simple, actually. We need to start with the Pentagon
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and modernizing the Pentagon. This is what Elon Musk actually signed up to do with SpaceX and
02:17
initially with Doge. He wanted to cut the bloated defense contractors and the waste out of the
02:23
Pentagon. We need not cost plus accounting. We need new competition. Secondly, we need to go after
02:32
negotiating big pharma. Medicare should be negotiating drug prices. Third, we should be stopping Medicare
02:39
Advantage from ripping off the American people. They're upcoding. They're making people sicker than they
02:46
actually are. We should make competitive procurement for the government. None of this, by the way,
02:51
is in the Republican plan. These are the big ticket items that would actually start to reduce the
02:56
deficit. They always say, oh, we're not for spending cuts. Right here, spending cuts. Actual spending cuts
03:02
of what we can be doing to reduce the deficit. And end fossil fuel subsidies. Musk has called for this
03:08
too, by the way, ending these fossil fuel subsidies. And then let's have some revenue generators.
03:13
You know, you have to both cut spending and generate revenue. Let's tax billionaires.
03:20
I never understood the billionaire argument. I am more billionaires than anyone in this chamber.
03:26
There are $5 trillion companies in my district. Apple, Google, Nvidia, Broadcom, and Tesla. I'm saying,
03:32
let's raise taxes on them. I don't understand how this is a hard vote for 434 other members of Congress.
03:38
And we should be making sure that we are taxing our stock buybacks. That we're making sure that when
03:45
we have large inheritances, people who are inheriting it actually have to pay capital gains. So that we,
03:52
in this country, start to reward hard work again. Not just speculation. So that we celebrate the people
03:59
who are doing daily work and paying taxes as opposed to just speculators who are avoiding taxes.
04:07
Anyway, this plan would reduce the deficit, reduce debt by $12 trillion over 10 years. And it would
04:16
also reduce the interest payments on the deficit every year, which would add an extra $2 trillion of
04:22
savings. Now, I'm not saying this plan is perfect, but here's what I think every member of Congress
04:28
should do. Propose how you're going to reduce the deficit. Tell the American people how the math
04:34
works. Every member of Congress owes that to their constituents. If you disagree with me,
04:40
have your own plan. But here's what I do know. The Republican plan is just going to explode deficits,
04:46
and it's going to hurt the American economy and make us all poorer. I hope, Mr. Speaker,
04:52
we can come together in this body to be honest with the American people, to actually have a calculator,
04:58
to do math, and to propose real plans for deficit reduction. Thank you.
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