'It Is Immoral': Brendan Boyle Rails Against The Big Beautiful Bill

At a House Democratic press briefing on Wednesday, Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) spoke about the Big Beautiful Bill.

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00:00thank you well this is it today is the day if Republicans and Donald Trump

00:14succeed today it will produce the largest loss of health care in American

00:23history 17 million Americans will lose their health care the biggest cut to

00:30Medicaid in American history millions taken off the Affordable Care Act and

00:37that's not all we have discovered half a trillion dollars worth of cuts to

00:44Medicare as well again all told the largest loss of health care in American

00:50history and for the rest of us who maybe aren't on Medicaid not on Medicare not

00:55on the ACA the quality of our care will go down while the costs go up so everyone

01:01will pay and why why are they doing this to provide billions in tax cuts to

01:09billionaires that is not just bad economics it is immoral that alone will

01:23be bad enough but you heard others speaking before me about some of the

01:27other cuts that are in this bill cuts to energy cuts as they relate to

01:33construction more than 1 million jobs will be lost as a result of this bill so

01:39it's also a job killer and again why so the top 110th 100th 1000th of 1% can get

01:48more money congratulations Jeff Bezos this crowd's about to give you a great

01:54big wedding gift you don't need and it's going to be paid for by taking away

01:59health care from millions of Americans and making cost for the rest of us even

02:05more expensive so we asked we asked the official scorekeepers the

02:11Congressional Budget Office okay all told with all the provisions in this bill how

02:18do people do and what the Congressional Budget Office found was this if you're

02:23in the bottom third of households that's everybody who makes under fifty five thousand

02:28dollars a year you will be poorer as a result of this bill if you're middle

02:34class you get nothing and if you're in the top 1% you get the biggest benefit of

02:40all so under the Republicans bill the poor get poor the rich get richer and the

02:45middle class is left behind we say hell no

02:50it is now my honor to introduce a great ranking member from Minnesota Angie Craig