Nancy Pelosi Rails Against GOP's Big Beautiful Bill On House Floor

During debate on the House floor, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) rose in opposition to the GOP's Big Beautiful Bill.

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00:00Gentlewoman is recognized for how much?

00:03Thank you, Mr. Speaker. One minute.

00:05Thank you, Mr. Tugger. Thank you for your leadership, Mr. McGovern.

00:09The gentleman just ended by saying to vote for this big, beautiful bill.

00:15This big, beautiful bill?

00:17Well, if beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then you, GOP,

00:20you have a very blurred vision of what America is about.

00:25Is it beautiful to cut off food from seniors and children?

00:31Is it beautiful to cut off 17 million people from health care?

00:35Is it beautiful to do this to give tax cuts to billionaires in our country?

00:41Is it beautiful, beautiful to take money from education and the rest?

00:45The list goes on and on.

00:48Dr. King nearly 60 years ago said,

00:50Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman

00:56because it often results in physical death.

01:00We come to this floor with a moral force of Dr. King's words in our heart.

01:06Let us not with this bill turn the American dream he talked about

01:10in a nightmare for America's seniors, the disabled, our children, our children, our children.

01:17Let us vote no on this shameful bill and throw a punch for the children.

01:23Gentlemen, time has expired.

01:24Gentlemen from North Carolina.

01:28Thank you, Mr. Speaker, our reserve.

01:31Gentlemen, reserve.

01:31Gentlemen from Massachusetts.