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Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2025

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 25, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Ms. POU. Mr. Chair, I rise for the first speech on the floor of this body to reject the Republicans' so-called budget.

I came to Congress to help my constituents. I came here to provide direct relief to struggling Americans and lift people up. This Republican budget does none of those things. It is nothing more than a blueprint for cruelty. This GOP budget will destroy Medicaid and take healthcare away from millions of Americans.

In my district alone, this could strip healthcare from the 215,000 people on Medicaid, blow up hospital budgets, raise insurance premiums, all to give trillions in tax cuts to the millionaires. This is another cash giveaway to the superrich at the expense of ruining American lives.

Mr. Chair, I reject it, and I intend to vote ``no'' to this cruel Republican budget.

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