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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Doug LaMalfa 1st District of California

Washington, D.C.—Today, Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) released the following statement after the House passed the budget reconciliation package, sending it to President Trump’s desk for final approval:

“This package delivers a lot of what we’ve been pushing for years. It means more jobs and a stronger economy. It makes Social Security checks tax-free for most seniors, protects Medicare, makes sure tips and overtime pay aren’t taxed, and extends tax relief so families can hold on to more of what they earn. It also opens up more of our country for energy and timber production and takes care of the West’s water needs by fixing canals and building more storage. It funds actually securing the border so we can finally finish the wall, remove criminal illegal aliens and get this crisis under control. Importantly, it gets us back to the principle that if you’re a healthy able-bodied adult, you should be employed. I’m glad to see the House pass it and look forward to seeing it signed into law.”

The budget reconciliation package is expected to be signed into law by the President in the coming days.

Background:

• Tax Relief for Working Americans: Extends significant tax cuts, including about a 15% cut for those earning $30,000–$80,000. Expands the Child Tax Credit and adds a senior tax deduction of $6,000 to offset taxes on Social Security. Also exempts tips and overtime from being taxed. The median family in California’s 1^st District will save around $3,500 under this bill.
• Helping Families Afford New Cars: Makes it easier for working Americans to purchase new vehicles by making interest on new purchases of American made cars deductible.
• Strengthens Timber & Farming: Expands timber harvesting and strengthens crop insurance and conservation tools, without adding red tape.
• Public Lands: No sale of federally managed public lands.
• Water Storage Expansion: Invests $1 billion to upgrade and expand water storage and fix canals, helping the West store and deliver more water in wet years.
• Rural Healthcare: Includes a new $50 billion fund to keep rural hospitals afloat as states change Medicaid formulas.
• Medicaid & SNAP Reform: Requires able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) to work, volunteer, or pursue education for at least 80 hours per month. Ends benefits for 1.4 million illegal immigrants.
• Protects Seniors: Does not touch Social Security or Medicare while adding additional tax deductions to help seniors.
• Energy & Resource Development: Repeals Green New Deal-style handouts, expands American oil, gas, and mineral production.
• Border Security & Immigration Enforcement: Fully funds Trump’s border wall, ramps up deportations, adds thousands of new ICE and Border Patrol agents.

Congressman Doug LaMalfa is Chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus and a lifelong farmer representing California’s First Congressional District, including Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama and Yuba Counties.

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi Representing the 12th District of California

Washington, D.C. — On Tuesday, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi joined 161 Members of Congress and 29 Senators in filing an amicus brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit challenging President Donald Trump’s sweeping and chaotic tariffs that were unlawfully imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The lawmakers’ brief stands up for Congress’s Article I executive legislative powers and argues that the IEEPA is not a tariff statute and that Congress did not intend or provide for the IEEPA to be used as a tariff statute. 

The amicus brief was led by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Task Force Chair Joe Neguse, House Judiciary Ranking Member and Task Force Co-Chair Jamie Raskin, House Foreign Affairs Ranking Member Gregory Meeks, and Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard E. Neal, as well as Senate Foreign Relations Ranking Member Jeanne Shaheen and Senate Finance Ranking Member Ron Wyden. It was filed in the matter of Oregon, et al., v. Trump, et al., which was brought forth by 12 States’ Attorneys General. 

In May, the Task Force successfully filed a brief in the same matter before the Court of International Trade (CIT). The CIT decision referenced our brief and struck down the President’s illegal tariffs under IEEPA. The Administration has now appealed the lower court’s ruling, and the matter is now before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. 

The Constitution gives Congress, not the President, the authority to impose tariffs, and the President can only raise tariffs if Congress has clearly delegated its authority to him. Although IEEPA (enacted in 1977) grants the president authority to impose sanctions, block foreign assets, and regulate economic transactions in response to “unusual and extraordinary threats” originating abroad, it is not a tariff statute and has never been used that way. Congress knows how to delegate tariff authority and has clearly done so on a number of occasions. When Congress does delegate such authority, it imposes substantive, procedural, and temporal limits on the president’s power in order to avoid economic chaos and protect the American people. 

The full brief is available HERE.

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi Representing the 12th District of California

San Francisco – Today, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and the San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium (SFCCC) hosted a virtual press conference on the devastating impacts of the Republicans’ Big, Ugly Bill on community health centers in San Francisco and the patients they serve.

Pelosi was joined by SFCCC President and CEO Dr. Johanna Liu, SF Community Health Center Chief Medical Officer Dr. Dan O’Neill, and Native American Health Center Community Health Care Coordinator Ellen McInnes who outlined how the legislation’s sweeping cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and the Affordable Care Act will jeopardize access to essential care for tens of thousands of San Franciscans—particularly low-income families, seniors and underserved communities.

Pelosi underscored that Democrats will keep fighting to reverse the bill’s damage in the Congress, in the courts and in the community with legislation, litigation and mobilization.

Watch the Speaker Emerita’s full remarks here.

Read the transcript of Speaker Emerita Pelosi’s remarks below:

Speaker Emerita Pelosi. Thank you very much, Johanna, for your leadership, for your kind words, for your understanding of what is at stake and what has happened here. I’m honored to join you and Dan O’Neill and Ellen McInnes—so proud of our Native American population in San Francisco.

Now, here’s the thing. I appreciate what you said about the Affordable Care Act.

I want to thank the San Francisco Clinic Consortium, because over the years, I’ve learned so much from you, and the legislation that is reflected in the Affordable Care Act is a reflection of what you have been doing over the years. I’ve worked with so many of your predecessors in this regard.

People say to me: ‘If you had a new country and you had no health care at all, what would you have?’

I said, ‘I would blanket the country with community health centers. I would do that and have a few hospitals as necessary.’

But by and large, just blanket the country with the community health centers, because you are close to people—culturally, linguistically, in every way—it’s the best draw for them to even come in for care because they know they will be understood. So I thank you for that, and we want it to reflect that in the Affordable Care Act.

Now, this monstrosity of a bill—how dare they call it beautiful. They’re always projecting. They know it’s not beautiful.

So it’s not only ugly, it’s grotesque. But let’s just say for a moment, because I know we’re going to hear more, as you have, and from our guests on the panel. I’ll just say what we’re trying to do about it.

It’s not only wrong, it is stupid—and whatever is worse than that. It’s not only not compassionate, it is sinful. It is sinful for what they are doing. And they’ve all just bought into it like, you know, some Kool Aid thing. Now, here’s the thing.

I listened this morning to the policy briefing from the San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium that was presented, and I took very extensive notes, which I can show you there, but all confirmed what we knew we were fighting against.

But I’m not even sure the Republicans understood what they were voting for. But consistent with what I heard there, what we are doing is in three channels.

One is litigation, and we’re winning many of those cases—litigation for a lot of things that what’s-his-name is doing. But in this case, to continue, intensify the litigation on this, A.

B: Legislation. To keep putting up legislation that corrects all of this, to just push these people into a corner, to say you’re either for this or not. Don’t say you don’t know what was in the bill. This is an attempt to correct it. So you can’t get away with saying that anymore.

The third is mobilization, which is part of communication. People say, ‘Oh, I didn’t realize.’

Well, we want to make sure you know. President Lincoln said, ‘Public sentiment is everything.’

Johanna, have you heard me say this a million times? ‘Public sentiment is everything. With it, you can accomplish almost anything. Without it, practically nothing.’

But for public sentiment to prevail, people have to know. So we want to remove all doubt in anybody’s mind about how affected they are by all of this.

This is a horrible thing that they’ve done to our country. And in your fight against it, thank you for that—for every individual person who would benefit, but also the fight for the culture and the character of what America is. This isn’t who we are.

America is great because America is good, they say. Not with this bill. Stupid, mean-spirited, sinful. They go to church on Sunday and pray and then they prey on people the rest of the week by taking away their food, by taking away their health care. It’s awful.

And just back to your point, the money standpoint, as you said so eloquently, Johanna.

It costs a lot of money and opportunity cost to prove that eight percent or ten percent perhaps of the people who are receiving this benefit should be working harder or more, whatever it is.

So one hundred percent of the people have to comply with whatever that is. And that applies to everything. I mean, I say that about free lunch for children in school. Any subject you can name, they increase the administrative cost at the expense of doing the right thing for people and not stigmatizing whatever their status might be.

So I thank you for that. But litigation—and I know you’re all engaged in litigation—legislation, mobilization/communication to make sure.

Now, I don’t want to talk politics, but in the next three months, we have to own August to make sure the public knows how they are affected because this is a brutal thing.

While some of his supporters may think this is okay, they don’t believe in government. Our people are paying the price for their stupidity—stupidity and unkindness.

I’ll just close by saying how we all started this. When we started the Affordable Care Act, it all began with Dr. King.

Dr. King said, ‘Of all forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman,’ he said. ‘Because it often results in physical death.’

So every initiative, whatever we initiate, we begin after the election and ready and prepared for his birthday to go forward. John Lewis—his birthday is coming up in July, another week or so. And we carry forth that initiative with John to make sure that we make some good trouble just turning this thing around.

Some of it doesn’t go into effect, as you know, until January 2027. But we want to make sure that when we win this next election—I’m talking civics here, not politics—when we win this next election, that they know that we’re ready to purge ourselves of this sinful, filthy, dirty, rotten, hateful, lousy, ugly legislation.

In that spirit, I yield back my time.Read the transcript of Speaker Emerita Pelosi’s remarks below:

Speaker Emerita Pelosi. Thank you very much, Johanna, for your leadership, for your kind words, for your understanding of what is at stake and what has happened here. I’m honored to join you and Dan O’Neill and Ellen McInnes—so proud of our Native American population in San Francisco.

Now, here’s the thing. I appreciate what you said about the Affordable Care Act.

I want to thank the San Francisco Clinic Consortium, because over the years, I’ve learned so much from you, and the legislation that is reflected in the Affordable Care Act is a reflection of what you have been doing over the years. I’ve worked with so many of your predecessors in this regard.

People say to me: ‘If you had a new country and you had no health care at all, what would you have?’

I said, ‘I would blanket the country with community health centers. I would do that and have a few hospitals as necessary.’

But by and large, just blanket the country with the community health centers, because you are close to people—culturally, linguistically, in every way—it’s the best draw for them to even come in for care because they know they will be understood. So I thank you for that, and we want it to reflect that in the Affordable Care Act.

Now, this monstrosity of a bill—how dare they call it beautiful. They’re always projecting. They know it’s not beautiful.

So it’s not only ugly, it’s grotesque. But let’s just say for a moment, because I know we’re going to hear more, as you have, and from our guests on the panel. I’ll just say what we’re trying to do about it.

It’s not only wrong, it is stupid—and whatever is worse than that. It’s not only not compassionate, it is sinful. It is sinful for what they are doing. And they’ve all just bought into it like, you know, some Kool Aid thing. Now, here’s the thing.

I listened this morning to the policy briefing from the San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium that was presented, and I took very extensive notes, which I can show you there, but all confirmed what we knew we were fighting against.

But I’m not even sure the Republicans understood what they were voting for. But consistent with what I heard there, what we are doing is in three channels.

One is litigation, and we’re winning many of those cases—litigation for a lot of things that what’s-his-name is doing. But in this case, to continue, intensify the litigation on this, A.

B: Legislation. To keep putting up legislation that corrects all of this, to just push these people into a corner, to say you’re either for this or not. Don’t say you don’t know what was in the bill. This is an attempt to correct it. So you can’t get away with saying that anymore.

The third is mobilization, which is part of communication. People say, ‘Oh, I didn’t realize.’

Well, we want to make sure you know. President Lincoln said, ‘Public sentiment is everything.’

Johanna, have you heard me say this a million times? ‘Public sentiment is everything. With it, you can accomplish almost anything. Without it, practically nothing.’

But for public sentiment to prevail, people have to know. So we want to remove all doubt in anybody’s mind about how affected they are by all of this.

This is a horrible thing that they’ve done to our country. And in your fight against it, thank you for that—for every individual person who would benefit, but also the fight for the culture and the character of what America is. This isn’t who we are.

America is great because America is good, they say. Not with this bill. Stupid, mean-spirited, sinful. They go to church on Sunday and pray and then they prey on people the rest of the week by taking away their food, by taking away their health care. It’s awful.

And just back to your point, the money standpoint, as you said so eloquently, Johanna.

It costs a lot of money and opportunity cost to prove that eight percent or ten percent perhaps of the people who are receiving this benefit should be working harder or more, whatever it is.

So one hundred percent of the people have to comply with whatever that is. And that applies to everything. I mean, I say that about free lunch for children in school. Any subject you can name, they increase the administrative cost at the expense of doing the right thing for people and not stigmatizing whatever their status might be.

So I thank you for that. But litigation—and I know you’re all engaged in litigation—legislation, mobilization/communication to make sure.

Now, I don’t want to talk politics, but in the next three months, we have to own August to make sure the public knows how they are affected because this is a brutal thing.

While some of his supporters may think this is okay, they don’t believe in government. Our people are paying the price for their stupidity—stupidity and unkindness.

I’ll just close by saying how we all started this. When we started the Affordable Care Act, it all began with Dr. King.

Dr. King said, ‘Of all forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman,’ he said. ‘Because it often results in physical death.’

So every initiative, whatever we initiate, we begin after the election and ready and prepared for his birthday to go forward. John Lewis—his birthday is coming up in July, another week or so. And we carry forth that initiative with John to make sure that we make some good trouble just turning this thing around.

Some of it doesn’t go into effect, as you know, until January 2027. But we want to make sure that when we win this next election—I’m talking civics here, not politics—when we win this next election, that they know that we’re ready to purge ourselves of this sinful, filthy, dirty, rotten, hateful, lousy, ugly legislation.

In that spirit, I yield back my time.

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi Representing the 12th District of California

Washington D.C. – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on the final House passage of the One Big, Ugly Bill:
 
“Today is a dark and harrowing time for America’s children, seniors, Veterans, working families and the most vulnerable in our nation. The Republicans’ Big, Ugly Bill is the biggest transfer of money in history to the wealthy and well-connected — paid for on the backs of everyday Americans. It is an immoral Robin Hood in reverse of bad economics. 

“The Big, Ugly Bill is a dangerous checklist of extreme Republican priorities: slashing funding for public schools, defunding Planned Parenthood, and making the largest cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and SNAP in history. This bill is a betrayal that abandons the needs of hardworking Americans and balloons the national debt by over $4 trillion — not to invest in the future, but to reward the wealthiest in our country at the expense of everyone else.

“The President calls this bill ‘beautiful’ — but if beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then his vision for America is seriously blurred. Republicans may think the American people will just ‘get over’ the devastating impacts of this ugly bill — but Democrats are united For The Children in opposing this legislation and we will fight to reverse its damage.”

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi Representing the 12th District of California

Washington, D.C. – Early this morning, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi spoke again on the House Floor to condemn Republicans’ “One Big, Ugly Bill” which adds $4 trillion to the national debt to fund tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.
 
Pelosi underscored the moral failure of prioritizing tax cuts for billionaires over critical investments in education, health care and food assistance for children and families. Pelosi called out Republican hypocrisy for criticizing essential public investments while pushing the largest spending item in the bill: massive tax breaks for billionaires. 
 
Watch her full remarks here.

Read the transcript of Speaker Emerita Pelosi’s Floor remarks below: 

Speaker Emerita Pelosi. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I thank the gentleman for yielding and for his exceptional leadership, recognizing that our budget should be the statement of values of our country and how we allocate our resources reflecting those values.
 
I asked to speak because I hear Members on the other side talking about spending on the part of the Democrats. Spending for education and health care and all the needs—of food for our children.

I just want to remind all of them, speaking to you, Mr. Speaker, that tax cuts are expenditures.
 
They’re the biggest spending in this bill to the tune of $5 trillion—$[4] trillion added to the national debt to give tax cuts to the wealthiest people in the country at the expense of feeding our children, health care for our people and the education of our children.

Nothing brings more money to the Treasury than the education of the American people, from early childhood, lifetime learning and every phase of it in between.
 
So you should be ashamed of yourselves to mock spending on education.
 
The best dollars we spend is on educating the American people and the investments in scientific research, the biblical power to cure that science provides for us—cut in this bill—to spend $5 trillion for the wealthiest people in America.
 
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi Representing the 12th District of California

Washington, D.C. – This morning, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House Floor against Republicans’ “One Big, Ugly Bill,” legislation that makes deep cuts to Medicaid and SNAP while handing massive tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans.

Pelosi denounced the bill’s extreme policies and joined House Democrats in urging a ‘no’ vote in defense of America’s seniors, children and working families. Her remarks underscored the broad opposition to the Republican bill and reaffirmed Democrats’ commitment to fighting for the American people against its harmful effects.

Later, Pelosi stood on the Floor with more than 100 House Democrats to ask Unanimous Consent that an amendment be made in order which would protect against any cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in the legislation. The effort was rejected by the Republican Majority.

Watch her full remarks here.

Read the transcript of Speaker Emerita Pelosi’s Floor remarks below: 

Speaker Emerita Pelosi. Thank you for your leadership, Mr. McGovern. The gentleman just ended by saying, ‘to vote for this “Big, Beautiful Bill.”‘ This ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’?

Well, if beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then you, GOP, you have a very blurred vision of what America is about.

Is it beautiful to cut off food from seniors and children?

Is it beautiful to cut off 17 million people from health care?

Is it beautiful to do this? To give tax cuts to billionaires in our country?

Is it beautiful to take money from education and the rest? The list goes on and on.

Dr. King, nearly 60 years ago, said: ‘Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death.’

We come to this Floor with the moral force of Dr. King’s words in our heart.

Let us not with this bill turn the American dream he talked about into a nightmare for America, seniors, the disabled. Our children. Our children. Our children.

Let us vote ‘no’ on this shameful bill — and throw a punch, For The Children.

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Bill Foster (11th District of Illinois)

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Geneva, IL – Today, Reps. Bill Foster (D-IL-11) and Sean Casten (D-IL-06) led a discussion at Northern Illinois Food Bank in response to the GOP budget, signed into law last week, which includes nearly $200 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. 

In Illinois, 1.8 million individuals rely on SNAP benefits annually. This bill changes eligibility requirements, putting an estimated 360,000 Illinoisans at risk of losing SNAP benefits.

Reps. Foster and Casten, Northern Illinois Food Bank President and CEO Julie Yurko, DuPage County Board member Greg Schwarze, Kane County Board member Jarett Sanchez, local food pantry partners, and neighbors who rely on food assistance came together to discuss how this legislation will impact Illinoisans struggling to make ends meet and the hunger relief programs that provide essential food support.

“I watched in disgust as Republicans celebrated passing a budget that puts 42 million Americans at risk of losing their food assistance or seeing it reduced,” said Rep. Foster. “With costs for everyday essentials surging under President Trump, these cuts threaten to push even more Illinoisans into food insecurity. In Congress, I will continue working to ensure the Northern Illinois Food Bank and local pantries have the resources and support they need to feed our neighbors.”

“Hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans will go hungry because Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans cut food assistance programs in order to give their billionaire friends a tax cut,” said Rep. Casten. “Organizations like the Northern Illinois Food Bank and other local food pantries have played a vital role in our community. We owe it to the folks they serve to keep up the fight and ensure they have what they need to continue their work.”

“While we are disappointed by the funding cuts to SNAP, we remain firmly committed to supporting our neighbors and network partners. Together, we will continue to advocate for lasting solutions that address the root causes of hunger and ensure every neighbor in Northern Illinois has access to the nutritious food they need to thrive,” said Julie Yurko, President and CEO of Northern Illinois Food Bank.

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Bill Foster (11th District of Illinois)

Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL), Congress’ only PhD physicist, issued the following statement:

“Make no mistake: We are in this situation because of President Trump’s careless decision to withdraw from the Iran Nuclear Deal during his first term. Under that agreement, we maintained adequate oversight over Iran’s nuclear program such that if they backed out, the U.S. and our allies would have at least a full year to respond militarily before Iran had enriched uranium for their first nuclear weapon. Because Trump pulled out of that agreement, Iran now has the ability to produce a weapon within weeks.

“In the period since Iran has stopped full cooperation with nuclear inspectors, there was more than enough time for the Trump Administration to brief Congress on the situation and seek the permission Constitutionally required for military action. It is also inexcusable that Trump did not inform Congressional leadership before military action was taken.

“Now is the time for diplomacy that must include an agreement to return all of Iran’s enriched uranium inventory to IAEA inspection. All parties must return to the negotiating table to ensure a safer future for the United States and the world.”

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Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Steve Scalise (1st District of Louisiana)

JEFFERSON, La.—Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) appeared on Fox Business Network’s Mornings with Maria to discuss how Republicans are getting the country back on track after years of decline under Joe Biden with the One Big Beautiful Bill. Leader Scalise highlighted how hardworking Americans will now have access to no tax on overtime, no tax on tips, strengthened social safety net programs, lower energy costs, and a stronger border. Additionally, Leader Scalise highlighted the work the House Oversight Committee is doing to expose the Biden Administration’s coverup of President Biden’s cognitive decline.

Click here or the image above to view Leader Scalise’s full interview. 
On the once-in-a-generation impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill:“Quite historic, Maria. It’s going to be great for American families who have been struggling. I mean, look, for four years, people struggled under Joe Biden, high inflation, high interest rates, high costs at the grocery store. All that is going to be turning around. You’re going to see, number one, more jobs, millions of more jobs will be created, trillions of more investment, people investing in America again because of this bill, stabilizing the tax code. Nobody gets a tax increase. I’d love, Maria, for every Democrat who’s out bashing this bill, ask them this basic question: Will you pay the higher tax rate that you voted for for all Americans? Because every Democrat voted ‘no,’ which means they voted for a higher tax rate for everybody in America. Will they pay that higher tax rate? Or are they going to take the benefits of this bill? There’s a lot of hypocrisy out there because this bill delivers a lot of great things for a lot of people. No tax on tips. One of the great hallmarks President Trump said that he would do on the campaign trail. Everybody who’s a tip worker is going to get it.“I’ll tell you something, Maria, I’ve been talking about with constituents just in the last few days back home that they didn’t even know about this bill. So not only do we say no tax on overtime, but let’s say you’re a cop, let’s say you’re a nurse, and you work overtime hours. This bill is retroactive to January to when Donald Trump took office. So all the taxes you paid on your overtime this year, you’re going to get that money back when you file your return. That’s going to be more money in your pockets. These are blue-collar workers.These aren’t the millionaires and the billionaires that the Democrats have been lying about this bill. This is blue-collar workers that get the benefits of this bill, plus more energy production, more border security. We revamp and modernize America’s whole air traffic control system. We’ve seen all these horrible reports. Laguardia being shut down for days, every air flight in America being canceled because we’re running off of floppy disks, for goodness’ sake. We fixed that in this bill. Sean Duffy, the great job he’s been doing over at transportation, they will now have the resources to modernize America’s air traffic control system. Every Democrat voted against that, Maria.”On combating Democrat lies over strengthened Medicaid for deserving Americans:“Well, we’re going to tell the truth while they’re out lying. We’ve always said, ‘If you keep lying about us, we’re going to keep telling the truth about you.’ They’ve been saying, ‘Everybody’s going to die. Every hospital is going to close.’ Well, a year from now, Maria, we’re actually going to be able to see results. It’s all the hyperbole that you saw them saying on the House floor. They were all lies. Disabled people will get better Medicaid under this bill because all of the fully able-bodied, the 35-year-old guy sitting at home playing video games in his mom’s basement, he’s going to have to go work because we put work requirements in place. And so he will not be crowding out disabled people in Medicaid. It’s a crowded program. It’s not the best form of health care right now. And so we’re going to make that program work better for the people that are truly disabled and needy, not for somebody who’s turning down work. And by the way, when he gets a job, he’s going to get health care with his job that’s better than Medicaid. So these are all components of the bill that they’ve been lying about. The truth is going to be something that the American people like because these are all things that President Trump campaigned on, and so did we.”On the Biden Administration’s coverups:“First, this is not somebody who has been stumbling over words, Maria. Everybody in America has watched his cognitive decline for years. Some in the far-left media act like that this was some new revelation at the debate where President Trump destroyed Joe Biden in the debate. It had been going on before that, and everybody knew about it, but the left was covering up, including the media in the left. And so let’s not play that game. “However, we’re really concerned about things like the use of the autopen. The autopen wasn’t just used to sign some congratulatory note for somebody who turned 100. They were signing pardons with the autopen, other really important documents. And then now there are people testifying saying, ‘Joe Biden probably didn’t even know it was being used.’ Well, if so, who was? Why was somebody using President Biden’s signature without President Biden’s own knowledge? We’re digging into things like that. His doctor raises a lot of questions when you’re asked, ‘Were you ever pushed into lying about Joe Biden?’ And you plead the fifth. It raises a lot of serious questions, Maria, and we’re going to keep digging to get answers.”On the disarray in the Democrat Party:“Yeah, Maria, people want to know the truth. The American people deserve to know the truth. And we have some people who are talking. There were some people in the Biden White House who are talking to Chairman [James] Comer’s committee. You were spot on in 2021. I have a number of my colleagues, we were all talking about this back then because you could see it. It wasn’t just something that we were trying to throw at the wall. It was something everybody that saw Joe Biden could see. They scripted him. They limited his schedule severely. They kept a really close bubble around him so people couldn’t talk to him. He didn’t do press conferences. Donald Trump does press conferences, everyday free-wheeling. But look, I have Republicans that went on Jake Tapper’s show to say he had a cognitive decline, and Jake Tapper read them the riot act, called him all kinds of crazy names. Now he’s got a book saying, ‘gee-whiz, we just realized it.’ No, he didn’t. He knew it back then, and he was playing pitbull for the far-left to attack any Republican who said there was a decline. The American people have figured this out.“The Democrat Party is still in denial. So, as you saw the clip from [Rep. Jasmine] Crockett, they’re trying to still cover up for it. They’re still in denial about why they lost the election. Their party is being run by Socialists. Go look in New York City. That’s who they are. That’s who their party is. And that’s not where the American people are. We’re fighting for blue-collar, hard-working families, and they’re still yelling lies about millionaires and billionaires and people dying in the streets, and they wonder why they keep losing elections.”On ICE agents making America safe again:“Well, first of all, it’s criminal. You are seeing President Trump and the Justice Department going aggressively after anybody who’s attacking ICE agents, whether they’re slashing tires or whether they’re ambushing and trying to murder them in shootouts. They’re going to do hard jail time. It’s a federal crime to attack and assault a federal officer. And so it’s being fueled by the left, though. Make no doubt about it, Maria. When you see Democrat politicians at the highest levels still out there publicly bashing ICE agents, the Democrat Party, who tried to defund police, is now trying to defund ICE. They want chaos. They don’t want rule of law. We are fighting for rule of law, and ICE agents are doing a wonderful job. These are heroes. These are people getting the pedophiles off of our streets, hardened criminals, gang leaders from foreign countries that Joe Biden let in. They’re the ones that are getting them out of our country to keep our community safe. And the Democrat Party wants to go after them. Shame on them, Maria.”

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Steve Scalise (1st District of Louisiana)

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) released a video touting the wins in Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill. Leader Scalise highlighted the economic relief, border security, and energy independence achieved by President Trump signing this historic bill into law. To view the full video, click here.

On promises made, promises kept through the OBBB:“For the last four years, America has been held back. We ran and said, ‘We’ll do something about it and we’ll fix it.’ America went to the polls in November and gave us this mandate – the House, Senate, and White House – to go deliver on all of the things that are in this bill, this One Big Beautiful Bill. This bill that’s going to deliver on so many promises that the American people asked us to do for them.“President Trump said that he was going to lock those tax rates in. Waiters and waitresses with no tax on tips. We get rid of all taxes on overtime pay for blue-collar workers. It’s going to lower inflation, create higher wages for families.“We fully fund President Trump’s effort to finish building the wall, give our Border Patrol Agents new technology so they can actually compete with the drug cartels of Mexico.“President Trump said that we were going to produce more American energy from ANWR in Alaska to the Gulf of America. In this One Big Beautiful Bill, those promises are kept.“You will see an American renaissance, a golden age in this country that we haven’t seen in generations, and we will get this economy moving again.”