At today's House Budget Committee hearing, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) tore into the GOP reconciliation bill.
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00:00We hear the Republicans talk about big, beautiful bill. I think this is a big, ugly bill.
00:08Let's call it what it is. It is the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in U.S. history.
00:16This reconciliation package proposes devastating cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
00:22My Republican colleagues will tell you that they are just going after waste, fraud, and abuse, but let's be clear.
00:29The only way to slash this much safety net spending is by making it harder for people to survive.
00:37Their changes will kick millions of Americans off their health care and nutrition assistant.
00:43That means more untreated illnesses, more hungry children, more preventable deaths.
00:49This isn't just line items in the budget. There are people's lives, the sacrifice of human dignity and of life itself.
00:58And for what? So that your billionaire friends can get nearly $300,000 in tax cuts?
01:05So we can expand tax breaks for corporations, hedge funds, and wealthy heirs?
01:11And that's not all. This bill includes plenty of other harmful giveaways, like new mining leases on public land, including the boundary waters in Minnesota.
01:23More than double the funding of ICE as it disappears innocent people.
01:29And more money to line the pockets of military contractors.
01:35And this whole proposal is held together by gimmicks designed to hide the real cost of showering the rich with permanent tax breaks.
01:45I say permanent tax breaks because the tax breaks that you have for working people in America are not permanent.
01:53Some of the most harmful provisions, like worker requirements, don't even kick in until Trump leaves office because you do not want the political package that comes with that,
02:05which is why you've been hiding from your constituents.
02:07This is not a serious budget. This is a green light for authoritarianism, for inequality to run rampant.
02:15It is a police state budget wrapped in billionaire tax cuts.
02:20And we have to be real with the American people.
02:23The breaks that they are telling you that you're going to have are not going to exist.
02:27If you make less than $50,000, you're going to get a dollar tax break a day.
02:33If you are a billionaire, you are getting $700 tax break every day.
02:39That is not a bill that cares about the working people.
02:43It is not an America first legislation.
02:47It is the billionaire first legislation.
02:49And we should all vote against it.
02:51I thank the gentleman.