Nancy Pelosi Blasts Republicans Over Big Beautiful Bill During Final Debate—Then Jodey Arrington Responds

On the House floor, Speaker Emerita Pelosi slammed the Big Beautiful Bill.

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00:00of the House, Ms. Pelosi. Speaker Merida is recognized for one minute. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

00:05I thank the General for yielding and for his exceptional leadership, recognizing that a budget

00:10should be the statement of values of our country and how we allocate our resources reflecting those

00:17values. I ask to speak because I hear members on the other side talking about spending on the part

00:24of the Democrats, spending for education and health care and all the needs of food for our

00:31children. I just want to remind all of them, speaking to you, Mr. Speaker, that tax cuts are

00:39expenditures. They're the biggest spending in this bill to the tune of $5 trillion, $5 trillion added

00:50to the national debt to give tax cuts to the wealthiest people in the country at the expense

00:56of feeding our children, health care for our people, and the education of our children.

01:00And nothing brings more money to the Treasury than the education of the American people,

01:06from early childhood, lifetime learning, and every phase of it in between. So you should

01:12be ashamed of yourselves to mock spending on education. The best dollar we spend is on educating

01:18the American people and the investments in scientific research, the biblical power to cure that science

01:27provides for us, cut in this bill, to spend $5 trillion for the wealthiest people in America.

01:34Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

01:35The gentleman from Texas is recognized.

01:38Mr. Speaker, budgets are value statements. We value letting working families keep more of

01:43their hard-earned dollars. We value stewarding tax dollars, protecting our most vulnerable,

01:50preserving programs that they depend on, not allowing people in this country illegally to

01:54siphon money away, jeopardizing those safety nets. Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank you for

01:59being with the line of cost for the

02:01working families that may not be a part-time client for the public health mirror.

02:05Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank you for the work of our students and staff in the

02:11UCB, which are really essential. Please make sure you have a large amount of information

02:15that we save people in this country in the country and the future.

02:20Yeah.

02:21I would like to thank you for the special many years for you to get this into a