Tensions erupted in the House as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ro Khanna launched blistering attacks on President Trump following the end of the 43-day government shutdown. Accusing the President of cutting off food aid and prioritizing billionaires and foreign leaders over working Americans, Democrats united in anger as Republicans pushed back. The debate exposed deep divisions over health care, SNAP benefits, and Trump’s America First claims.
00:02I inquire how many more speakers do the gentlelady have?
00:04She doesn't seem to have very many.
00:10I believe we have one more, Mr. Speaker.
00:12We have several.
00:14Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute to the gentleman from New York, Mr. Ocasio-Cortez.
00:18The gentlelady from New York is recognized for one minute.
00:22It is great. It is great that Democrats have a line of people who are willing to fight for working-class Americans
00:28from coast to coast in this country.
00:30Because God forbid that we have a member of the Republican caucus who stands up
00:35and actually wants to extend the Affordable Care Act so that people with cancer, insulin,
00:41and issues across all sorts of health care issues across this country
00:45have their health insurance protected and extended throughout 2026.
00:49It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation
00:54that will give eight members of the United States Senate over a million dollars apiece.
01:01And we are robbing people of their food assistance and of their health care to pay for it.
01:09How is this even on the floor?
01:12How can we, as members of Congress, Republican or Democrat, vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?
01:24That is what this legislation does.
01:26In fact, Senator Graham just went before the press earlier today
01:30saying he was going to seek well over a million dollars from the American people from this.
01:35We cannot support it, and we cannot stand for it. Thank you.
01:39Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
01:44And I just wanted to point out to some of my colleagues that, you know,
01:50the Democrat government shutdown stopped the SNAP benefits.
01:55So if they were very concerned about making sure that people had their nutritional assistance,
02:01they wouldn't have shut down the government because that is what caused it.
02:04And with that, Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute to the gentleman from Texas.
02:09The gentleman is recognized for one minute.
02:12Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
02:13It was great to hear from the new leader of the Democrat Party, Mrs. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
02:18Unfortunately, we didn't also get to hear from their other leader, Mr. Zoran Mondani.
02:23Mr. Speaker, I'm going to be proud this evening to vote to reopen the federal government.
02:32House will be in order.
02:33Mr. Speaker, for 40 days, the Democrats shut our government down to pursue unrealistic policy proposals
02:44that they know the American people do not want.
02:47Mr. Speaker, the American people do not want health care for illegal aliens.
02:52They do not want our tax dollars funding left-wing media outlets.
02:57And they do not want to drive up our debt $1.5 trillion as part of a short-term continuing resolution.
03:04Mr. Speaker, the last 40 days have been nothing but pure political nihilism.
03:10And I'm glad that this nightmare is over so that we can get back to work on behalf of the American people.
03:16Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
03:17I yield back.
03:18Gentleman from Massachusetts.
03:23Gentleman from Massachusetts.
03:27I reserve.
03:28Gentleman reserves his time.
03:29Gentlelady from Minnesota.
03:31Reserve.
03:32Reserves.
03:33Who seeks time?
03:35Mr. Speaker, let me first of all just say to the gentlelady, this is Republican shutdown.
03:39It didn't need to happen.
03:42All you need to do is extend the ACA tax credit so that people wouldn't get screwed on their health insurance bills.
03:47But I also point out to her that the President of the United States illegally withheld SNAP benefits.
03:52And two federal judges, basically two court orders, backed us up on that.
03:58And he's the first president ever in history to actually shut off food benefits to people during a shutdown.
04:04Shame on him.
04:05I will now yield one minute to the gentleman from California, Mr. Conner.
04:08The gentleman from California is recognized for one minute.
04:11Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
04:12Mr. Speaker, our country is at a moral crossroads.
04:16Just today, it comes out that billionaires are worth eight trillion dollars.
04:22More than 50 percent of Americans combined.
04:25And what does the President do?
04:27He decides he doesn't have the money for the American people.
04:30He's going to starve the American people to give 40 billion dollars to the corrupt libertarian leader in Argentina.
04:38Nine billion dollars would have fed the American people.
04:41How is that America first?
04:43And then he says, I don't care about the Texas cab driver who is paying 2,600 dollars now per month in health insurance as opposed to 44 dollars.
04:55Because I don't want to save the 20 million Americans who are going to face high premium increases.
05:01How is that America first?
05:04We need national health insurance in this country.
05:07We need to tax billionaires in this country.
05:10We need to fund SNAP in this country.
05:13And we need to stop funding Argentina and corrupt foreign leaders.
05:17General Lady from Minnesota.
05:21Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
05:22And I just wanted to address for just a second the health care issue that the Democrats continue to bring up and act like this had anything to do with everyone in the country's premiums.
05:33Because we are talking about the COVID-era Affordable Care Act's COVID-era subsidies.
05:46So this is not what is affecting other people's premiums.
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