On Friday, at a House Budget Committee markup of 'One Big Beautiful Bill', Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) spoke about remarks from Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO)
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00:00I thank the gentleman and now yield to Glenn Grofman from Wisconsin for three minutes.
00:08Thank you. First, I'd like to correct a misstatement made by the minority party today.
00:17I don't consider Josh Hawley a conservative, so I just want to straighten that out.
00:23I think we had an opportunity here to have truly a transformative bill.
00:32And I think in January, that's what most of our expectations were.
00:38We'd be going line by line through the entire federal government, recognizing the fact that we're borrowing 26% of our budget
00:47and thereby removing a lot of the programs that are out there now.
00:55My senator has done a tremendous job of explaining what should be done.
01:00I think sometimes it's a little unrealistic in what can be done politically.
01:04But I also feel looking at this document like there should have been more.
01:07I've talked a lot about the low-income tax credits, the type of things that all the conservative think tanks almost ridicule.
01:16But miraculously, we're going to be voting today to increase those tax credits, which means we were not too many people out here.
01:25We did not want the wonderful bill that so many of us were expecting in January and February.
01:37In any event, I will be voting for this bill today.
01:40In order to be placed on this committee, you are supposed to say that you're going to vote for the bill that's presented.
01:47I think the fact that they're delaying the work requirements on Medicaid indicates that there was kind of a lack of sincerity in reaching the spirit of the law.
01:59Well, it may have hit the letter of the law.
02:02Nevertheless, there are some good things in here.
02:04I think the country would be better off with the bill passed than before the bill passed.
02:11But it is rare that you get this chance of having the House, the Senate, and the presidency.
02:17I think the closer we get to the election, I'm sure we're going to try another reconciliation bill.
02:22But the closer you get to the next election, the more wimpy politicians become.
02:26So I think this could have been a lot better.
02:28But I'll be voting for it today.
02:30Thank the gentleman from Wisconsin and now you.