Brendan Boyle: This Is Why Republicans Are Actually 'Embarrassed' By The Big Beautiful Budget Bill

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At a rally on Wednesday, Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) slammed the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill, which ultimately passed early Thursday morning.

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00:00welcoming Congressman Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania thank you thank you

00:10especially to the guy with the Phillies hat first place first place all right

00:16I'm gonna bring us back united here we went a little slightly divisive there

00:20we're gonna come back united and folks I apologize if I'm a little punchy I was

00:25testifying between 1 a.m. and 4 30 a.m. I was wondering who was watching c-span

00:33during those hours c-span after dark it's a lot of fun folks if you're proud of

00:40something if you really want people to see it you don't start the committee at

00:461 o'clock in the morning hoping people won't be tuned in and here's why they're

00:50imbalanced why they're embarrassed and these aren't my numbers these aren't

00:55coming from cap these aren't coming from any progressive group these are the

01:00numbers from the official score keepers the CBO the people just tell it like it

01:06is with the numbers in this bill the largest Medicaid cuts in American

01:13history in this bill the largest cuts to nutrition and food assistance in

01:21American history in this bill they finally achieve their 15-year quest to put a

01:30serious dent into the Affordable Care Act by the way when you take the Medicaid

01:39cuts that will force millions of people to lose their health care combined with

01:44the cuts to the Affordable Care Act according to CBO almost 14 million

01:50Americans will lose their health care as Hakeem said the greatest loss of health

01:55care in American history will be because of this bill if it passes and that if it

02:03isn't bad enough is not all thank you those two yes that's not all last night

02:12in my testimony or early this morning at a little about 2 o'clock in the morning I

02:18dropped the bombshell I had just received a letter as I was walking in from

02:22the head of CBO about a month ago I had requested an analysis what impact would this

02:29increase in deficit due to Medicare given we operate under something called pay go

02:36congressional budget office confirmed this bill becomes law sequestration of

02:42Medicare happens 500 billion dollars worth of cuts to Medicare also in this bill

02:49and why why are they doing this to help fund tax cuts for billionaires

02:59it is bad economics it is also deeply immoral just listen to that bleeding-heart

03:10senator Josh Hawley who called and by the way wasn't misquoted this was an op-ed he

03:18wrote just a few days ago he called the cuts to Medicaid morally wrong I can't

03:26believe I'm saying this but Josh Hawley is right look this is going to be one of

03:33the most important votes frankly of the lifetime of any of us here we have never

03:38seen ever cuts proposed like this to Medicaid we've never seen cuts proposed

03:44like this to Medicare we have never seen cuts like this we have seen them

03:49proposed but not enacted to Obamacare and the list goes on and on and on and why to

03:56transfer wealth for the crowd that always says we don't believe in class warfare well

04:01why are you practicing it then because what was also in the CBO analysis last

04:06night released separately was actually the distribution tables now I know you start

04:12talking about distribution tables Wow that's a wild time at a party but

04:19they're really important and here's what they show and they were released last

04:22night and I talked about this to the crowd that was gathered on the Capitol

04:27steps at one o'clock in the morning and thank those of you who are still here thank

04:32you for being there last night and thank all of you for being here you were truly

04:37doing such important valiant work we need it now more than ever but here's what

04:42those tables show for the bottom ten percent of Americans they will be four

04:49percent poorer because of this bill for the wealthiest ten percent they'll be two

04:56percent wealthier because of this bill the group that will lose the most the

05:04bottom ten percent the group that will make the most the top ten percent so

05:09this bill will make the poor poorer and the rich richer it is bad economics and it

05:15is immoral we must defeat this bill thank you

05:21let's give it up for congressman Boyle one more time the only

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