Monitor Accountability Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, right now, costs are going through the roof thanks to President Trump's tariff taxes and his reckless war in Iran.

Families are paying more for gas, paying more for groceries, paying more for housing, and paying more for healthcare. The list goes on and on.

Fifteen million Americans are about to lose their healthcare coverage because of that so-called Big Beautiful Bill Act that Republicans passed and the President signed into law last summer, which just happens to be one of the most unpopular pieces of legislation in modern legislative history.

Millions are losing food assistance because of that disastrous law. Working families are stretching every dollar every day.

While all of this is happening, Mr. Speaker, what is your President focused on? A ballroom.

Mr. Speaker, this tells you everything you need to know about this President's priorities. The American people are asking for lower costs. Donald Trump is asking for a taxpayer-funded vanity project at the White House. Maybe we should start calling Republican reconciliation 2.0 what it really is: the billion dollar ballroom act. That is because this Republican agenda can somehow find money for Donald Trump's ballroom and his billionaire donors, but it can never seem to find a dime to lower costs for the American people.

There is not enough money to protect healthcare, not enough money to protect food assistance, not enough money to lower the cost of gas, groceries, housing, or healthcare, but, somehow, there is more money for Donald Trump's big, beautiful ballroom.

That is the problem with this entire agenda. It asks working families to pay more and get less, all while Donald Trump gets exactly what he wants. They can find money for tax breaks for billionaires. They can find money for giveaways to the well-connected, and they can find money for Donald Trump's ballroom. However, when it comes to helping families afford a gallon of gas, a bag of groceries, a doctor's visit, or a safe place to live, suddenly Republicans say: We have no money.

Americans have been loud and clear. They want costs to go down, and they want it now. They do not want their taxpayer dollars spent on a ballroom so this President can host lavish events with his billionaire friends. If the President cared as much as about lowering costs for the American people as he does his precious ballroom, maybe 1 pound of beef would not cost more than 1 hour of work at the Federal minimum wage.

For this reason, at the appropriate time, I will offer a motion to recommit this bill back to committee.

If House rules permitted, I would have offered the motion with an important amendment to this bill. My amendment would simply prohibit taxpayer funding for Donald Trump's White House ballroom. It is simple. Not one taxpayer dollar, not one dime, should be spent on a vanity ballroom while Americans are losing healthcare, losing food assistance, and struggling to make ends meet.

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Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I hope and, indeed, urge my colleagues to join me in voting for this simple motion to recommit.

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Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.

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Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

The yeas and nays were ordered.

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