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Providing for Consideration of Senate Amendment to H.R. One Big Beautiful Bill Act

Floor Speech

Date: July 2, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Ms. WATERS. Mr. Speaker, this big, ugly bill strikes healthcare from 17 million Americans, shutters hospitals, and starves 12 million people by taking away their food stamps.

These cuts add up to $1.3 trillion, the exact cost of the tax cut Republicans are handing out to the richest 1 percent of Americans. That is not all. The entire bill will add a whopping $3.3 trillion to our Nation's $35 trillion debt. So much for Republicans being the party of fiscal responsibility.

They are also gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that returned $21 billion to families cheated by megabanks. They are cutting housing funds during an affordability crisis and weakening oversight of Wall Street. Maybe they have forgotten that the people elected them, not Trump or the billionaire class.

Mr. Speaker, it will be a cold day in hell before we let Republicans get away with this.
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