WASHINGTON – The leader of the representatives’s chamber minority, Hakeem Jeffries, Dn.y., Excoriados Republicans during a speech on the floor of the Marathon House on Thursday in an attempt to delay the approval of the bill of the Republican Party by the agenda of President Donald Trump.
During his speech, which began just before 5 in the morning and was ongoing more than six hours later, the Democratic leader criticized the bill of the Republican Party, often referring to a series of folders while reading notes of the Americans who, according to him, would be harmed by the Benefits of Benefits of Medicaid and Snap.
The “big and beautiful bill” backed by Trump seems to be ready to approve the camera after several Republicans turned their votes during the night to support the advance of the bill. Jeffries’s speech is part of the debate on the bill, and although it is unlikely that he can turn the votes of the Republican party, his speech can delay the voting timeline.
Chamber leaders have unlimited speech time on the floor, using a procedure called “Magic Minute.” The longest speech on the floor of the house was 8 hours and 32 minutes for the then minority leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Jeffries has not shown signs of deceleration, noting that he was taking his “sweet time in the name of the American people.”
“What is contemplated in this big and ugly bill is wrong. It is dangerous, and it is cruel, and cruelty should not be the objective or the result of the legislation we consider here in the United States representatives,” Jeffries said, arguing that it was “cruel” to cut Medicaid.
Democrats have repeatedly applauded throughout Jeffries. The minority leader concentrated on the impact of the bill on Medicaid recipients, reading notes of people who trust government medical care programs or have a family in Medicaid.
“Above all, I am grateful for the spirit, the heart and soul of the American people who have risen throughout this country to make it clear to everyone in this institution: keep your hands out of our Medicaid. Keep their hands out of our medical attention,” Jeffries said.
The Senate version of the bill would lead to almost 12 million people to lose health insurance in the next 10 years due to Medicaid cuts, according to the budget office of the non -partisan congress. It would institute the work requirements for adults with less than 65 years, a key republican priority, and alter the way in which the states finance Medicaid.
The bill also includes enormous financing increases for the application of immigration and military and would reduce the fiscal credits of Clean Biden energy, among other provisions.
Jeffries framed the bill when Republicans “try to take a chain saw” to social security networks.
“Republicans are trying to take a chain saw to the Social Security, a Medicare chain saw, a Medicaid chain saw, a chain saw for the medical care of the US people, a chain saw for nutritional assistance for hungry children, a chain saw for the agricultural country and a chain saw for vulnerable Americans,” Jeffries said.
Jeffries’s speech occurs months after Senator Cory Booker, Dn.J., establishes the record of the longest Senate speech, in more than 25 hours.
