Ranking Member Scott Rips Apart Republicans’ “Big Bad Billionaires Bill”
“Mr. Speaker it’s hard to take my colleagues on the other side of the aisle seriously when they give speech after speech after speech complaining about the deficit and then support this reconciliation bill that adds trillions of dollars to the national debt.”
WASHINGTON – Today, Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, House Committee on Education and Workforce, spoke in opposition to the “Big Bad Billionaires’ Bill,” which makes extreme cuts to federal education, health, and child nutrition programs, and raises the federal deficit, all to give more tax breaks and handouts to wealthy Americans and corporations.
Watch Ranking Member Scott’s remarks on YouTube.
“Mr. Speaker, it’s hard to take my colleagues on the other side of the aisle seriously when they give speech after speech after speech complaining about the deficit and then support this reconciliation bill that adds trillions of dollars to the national debt.
“The bill not only increases the deficit, but over 4 million students are estimated to have their Pell Grants reduced or eliminated, up to 18.3 million children are estimated to potentially lose access to free school meals, and at least 13.7 million people are set to lose their health care coverage. And everybody loses when the National Institute of Health research is cut.
“This ‘Big Bad Billionaire’s Bill’ steals educational opportunities from students, cuts healthcare and food from working families, all to fund tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. And then increases the national debt.
“Mr. Speaker, to paraphrase Harry Truman, this is not fearmongering, it’s the truth. But they [Republicans] just think it’s fearmongering.
“Vote no.”
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