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Floor Speech

Date: July 2, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Ms. SALINAS. Mr. Speaker, with this bill, my Republican colleagues are betraying the American people.

In the dark of morning, they are trying to ram through legislation that will raise costs, strip away healthcare, take food off the tables of working families, and increase energy costs for all Americans, all to give tax breaks to billionaires and corporations.

Cuts to Medicaid will shutter rural hospitals, nursing homes, and health centers, leaving families with higher costs and nowhere to turn for care.

As millions of families right now are struggling to put food on the table, this bill cuts funding for nutrition assistance, forcing children, veterans, and seniors to go hungry.

This bill raises costs on everything, from energy bills to prescription medications.

This bill is a grave mistake. If it passes, my Republican colleagues may pay for it at the ballot box, but countless Americans will pay for it with their lives.

I urge my colleagues to have the moral courage to oppose this bill.

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