Brendan Boyle Highlights 'Terrible' Polling For Republican Big Beautiful Bill

At a House Rules Committee hearing on Tuesday, Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) spoke about polling numbers for the Big Beautiful Bill.

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00:00Thank you, Mr. Arrington. Mr. Boyle, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam Chair, Mr.

00:07Ranking Member, and all the members of the committee. It is an honor to get to

00:12be able to testify before this committee. It is an honor in this moment and a

00:17privilege to be here because the next 24 hours might be the most important of

00:25our entire careers. The health care of 17 million people who have it today and may

00:33lose it by the end of the week, that's all on the line. The food assistance that

00:40another 4 million currently get and may have taken away from them, that's on the

00:45line. So I can tell you this, there is no place I would rather be than right here,

00:51right now, in this moment, when each and every one of us can make the critical

00:56difference. When this bill passed the first time, it was only by one vote in the

01:02House. Just an hour ago in the Senate, it was passed by one vote in the Senate. I

01:08think this will come down to one vote yet again, whether or not this becomes law.

01:14And if it does, it will be the greatest loss of health care in American history.

01:23Non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has confirmed 17 million Americans. And

01:29let me explain how they arrive at that number. Roughly half of that is due to the

01:34largest Medicaid cuts in American history. But another half of it is due to

01:41changes and allowing certain tax credits and provisions to expire in the Affordable Care

01:48Act or Obamacare. I give the other side credit. They have been working like hell for

01:5315 years to do away with Obamacare. This is the closest that they've ever come. Millions

02:00and millions today currently on Obamacare will lose it if this becomes law. And that's not

02:06all. As we confirmed again from CBO a few weeks ago, due to the massive increase in

02:13deficit spending in this bill, there have to be 4% Medicare cuts. That's over $500

02:20billion worth of cuts to Medicare. So Medicaid cuts, Affordable Care Act, ACA cuts, Medicare

02:28cuts, the largest loss of health care in American history. I referenced nutrition assistance moments

02:35ago. Also the largest cuts to SNAP in American history. Cuts to higher education programs, cuts

02:43to Head Start. It goes on and on. And yet, as large as that is and as bad as that is, that

02:51still does not fully pay for the over $5 trillion in tax cuts that mostly go to the hyper wealthy.

03:01How is the rest of that financed? Through deficit and debt. The same crowd that would bemoan the

03:08last four years there was a Democrat in the White House about the deficit and debt is adding more to

03:15our national debt in this bill than any other piece of legislation to pass since I've been here.

03:21We can do far better than this. The American people are smart. When they've been asked about the

03:30provisions of this bill, I have never seen poll numbers, truly, I have never seen poll numbers

03:36this terrible. By a roughly two to one margin, the American people oppose this bill. They oppose millions

03:46of Americans losing their health care. They oppose millions of Americans losing their nutrition

03:52assistance. They oppose the idea we're racking up even more deficit and debt, which we both acknowledge

03:58is a serious problem in our country and bound to get worse. They oppose making a bad problem even worse.

04:07And why? For what higher noble purpose? To give tax cuts that mostly benefit the top 1% of Americans.

04:19This is going to be one of the biggest, if not the biggest votes in each and every one of our careers.

04:27I am proud to be here doing everything I possibly can to say, hell no, let's kill this bill. I yield back.

04:34I yield back. Thank you very much.