During a House Democratic press briefing on Tuesday, Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) spoke about the Republicans' budget resolution.
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00:00Well, thank you to to Catherine, the next majority leader of the United States House of Representatives, and thank future Speaker Jeffries, as well as my my colleagues, Frank Pallone and Angie Craig, with whom I partnered a few weeks ago to introduce the legislation hands off Medicaid and SNAP.
00:20Today, I filed a discharge petition that right now is live in the House. Well, 10 a.m. was proud to to be the first signer. And as Catherine and Hakeem both mentioned, all we need. We don't need 100 percent of House Republicans. We don't need a majority of them. We need two percent. Two percent of House Republicans.
00:41And by the way, there have been far more than two percent on TV who have been saying, oh, no, I would never cut Medicaid. I would never cut SNAP. Not me. OK, prove it right now in the House.
00:54Well, you can go down there, take about 15 seconds, sign your name and we can have an immediate vote to protect Medicaid and to protect SNAP, because if that doesn't happen, Republicans have already voted in the House.
01:09Every single one of them, but one voted for the largest cut to Medicaid in American history. And on top of that, the largest cut to SNAP in American history. And why? To help subsidize tax cuts for the top one percent.
01:24It is wrong. It is moral. It is immoral. And it is bad economics. So to those Republicans who and especially living in Philadelphia every election time, I see a lot of TV ads.
01:36It is amazing how moderate suddenly some Republicans become at election time every two years and every four years.
01:43Well, here is an opportunity to actually prove it not at election time to make a real difference.
01:51Just four House Republicans can make the critical difference to ensure that Medicaid and SNAP are entirely protected.
02:00I'll close with this. This is not some abstract Washington, D.C. issue.
02:06Forty four percent of my constituents in working class neighborhoods of Philadelphia that I'm proud to be from and represent.
02:14Forty four percent are on Medicaid.
02:16My neighbors will have their lives deeply impacted in a negative way if these Medicaid cuts go through.
02:27We are doing everything we can to prevent them.
02:31And with that, I am now proud to introduce almost a neighbor from New Jersey, the past and future chair of the energy.
02:39Let's go.
02:55Forty five percent are on Medicaid.