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Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026

Floor Speech

Date: Nov. 12, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Ms. BARRAGAN. Mr. Speaker, I oppose the Republican spending bill that makes healthcare more expensive for hardworking Americans.

While Republicans were on their 7-plus week vacation, all of our constituents were receiving notices of premium increases. A constituent of mine, a lifelong educator, has been told that her premiums will jump from $383 to nearly $1,000.

Meanwhile, Trump and Republicans can find money for a fancy ballroom. They can give tax breaks to billionaires. They even included millions of dollars in cash payments in this bill for eight Republican Senators. If anyone else in government gave themselves millions in taxpayer money, they would go to prison. For Americans trying to afford healthcare? Not $1 in tax credits.

House Democrats are united against this corrupt bill and will keep fighting to protect America's healthcare.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to reject this bill.

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