Pete Aguilar Calls Out Vulnerable Colorado Republican Over Big Beautiful Bill Support

At a House Democratic press briefing on Wednesday, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) spoke about the Big Beautiful Bill.

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00:00thank you Angie Donald Trump promised the American people that he would cut

00:09costs on day one Republicans in Congress swore up and down that their policies

00:15would fight inflation and make life easier for everyday Americans more lies

00:20but we've all seen under this president and this Republican majority the prices

00:25continue to rise and the American dream slipping further from reach today marks

00:31the culmination of Donald Trump's betrayal of working people across this

00:35country because of this bill your health care is going to go up your electric bill

00:42is going to be more expensive the clothes and groceries that you buy are already

00:48rising due to his reckless tariffs the only people who make out in this bill

00:54are people who can already afford to pay a little bit more at the checkout line

01:00but that's not the reality for most people in this country this bill isn't

01:06for the American people it's a reward to the mega-rich campaign donors that

01:11bankroll Republican campaigns why would Gabe Evans in Colorado vote for this bill

01:1829,000 people will lose access to healthcare in his district 30,000 households will lose access to food

01:30nutrition programs and almost a thousand energy jobs will be lost no one asked 17 million people to lose

01:40their health insurance no one asked for hospitals to close or nursing homes to be

01:46shuttered because billionaires want more tax breaks where I'm from that's not big

01:52or beautiful that's small and ugly no one asked for food assistance to be taken

02:01away from children to give handouts to the same corporations gouging the American

02:05people house Democrats believe that this bill fundamentally is un-american we're

02:12going to fight to make sure billionaires and wealthy corporations pay their fair

02:16share so that we can build an economy that works for everyone we're gonna fight to

02:22make America less expensive and we're gonna fight to give working-class people

02:27more breathing room and opportunities to get ahead I want to thank my house

02:32colleagues for standing with us in this time against this bill I want to thank the

02:38community members who have joined us as well and members and members of the

02:47faith-based community we're not here in a partisan exercise we're here because the

02:53American people don't deserve this suffering now we did take a little bit of

02:59liberties when we say hell no we didn't ask them members of the clergy but we

03:04stand in unison against this dangerous bill and today however long it takes we

03:11will continue to vote against this bill we will do it together and we will do it

03:16with the American people in mind thank you so much