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Protecting the Middle Class

Floor Speech

Date: April 7, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Ms. BYNUM. Mr. Speaker, this administration is taking money out of people's pockets and robbing the middle class of their earnings, and I am fighting back.

I am fighting for the food bank in Redmond that can't offer meat in its meals because of funding cuts. I am fighting for the seniors across my district that are watching their life savings evaporate in the stock market. I am fighting for retirees taking required distributions from the their IRAs at a loss because Trump's tariff policies that are tanking the market.

I am fighting for the parents who can't afford clothes for their kids, for the families who can't afford groceries, and for the young people who can't afford to buy a car or a home.

This foolishness can't continue, Mr. Speaker. Costs are skyrocketing. The stock market is in free fall. We are headed toward a recession.

I call on Congress to pass my Protecting Families From Inflation Act and to vote to put an end to this ill-advised trade war. The American people can't wait.

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