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Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2025

Floor Speech

Date: April 9, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Ms. PLASKETT. Mr. Speaker, I stand here appalled and terribly disappointed at the actions of the Republican majority and the brazen cruelty and flagrant deceit with which Republicans in Congress and the Trump-Musk administration are trying to shove this fallacy down the throats of everyday American people.

Nearly one in three Americans count on Medicaid. Yet Republicans are pushing a cut of at least $880 billion in Medicaid. What is the purpose?

This is the purpose. As I sit on the Committee on Ways and Means, I know that they must add $7 trillion, trillion with a t, in giveaways to billionaire donors and big corporations, while ripping healthcare and food away from veterans, seniors, and children.

Mr. Speaker, yes, Americans are fed up with the chaos. They are also fed up with the cruelty, the lack of humanity, and the willingness to help everyday Americans who are being exploited by this.

They are exposed.

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