The US House passed President’s Trump massive bill. Every House Republican, save two, voted for it and every Democrat voted against. Along the way the time designated for debate was filled with theatrical games, terrible overacting, and the-sky-is-falling nonsense. Congress doesn’t debate anymore and that is a bigly problem.
Democrat House leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries took to the floor today and ran wild with the “magic minute” rule, which allows a party leader to speak for as long as they like. He isn’t the first to play this game, but he is now the title holder for longest waste of time on the House floor. Congratulations.
Jeffries’s tirade was wide-ranging and incredibly long, but more incredible than its length is the fact that he didn’t say anything of substance the whole time. Remarkable.
There are plenty of reasons to vote against this legislation, but Jeffries can’t articulate one real problem. Some of Jeffries’s lowlights include:
- “This disgusting abomination rips food from the mouths of children, seniors, and veterans.”
- Just yelling “immoral” several times.
- “The cruelty.”
- Called the House floor “a crime scene.”
- “Not a single thing in Donald Trump’s one big, ugly bill will meaningfully make life more affordable for everyday Americans and that’s just one of several reasons why House Democrats are ‘hell no’ on this legislation.”
- Repeating “hell no” over and over.
- Ended marathon diatribe minutes after breaking the record for longest waste of time.
That first bullet point is ridiculous victim triangulation. Democrat consultants like James Carville loved the triangulation. Ripping food out of the mouth of [insert whoever x3] ought to sway opponents, if only it were true. Jeffries doesn’t even attempt to tie no food for kids, seniors and vets into the proposed bill. It’s empty bull.
Yelling “immoral,” calling it “cruelty,” and describing the House floor as “a crime scene” are just more empty rhetoric. When Jeffries says “not a single thing” he is being far too uncompromising to be believed. Jeffries leaves us compelled to mention that there is no difference between voting Nay and “hell no,” other than the former is appropriate professionalism and latter is indecent noise.
It’s difficult to imagine why Jeffries didn’t try to offer serious counterpoints to the massive legislation. The bill increases the National Debt and raises the Debt Ceiling. That should be enough for conservatives to begin to reconsider. If Jeffries wasn’t such a drama queen and a completely ineffective leader, then maybe he could have convinced a few fiscal conservatives by offering specifics of over-spending. But instead he went with yelling “immoral.”
This enormous bill was called One Big Beautiful Bill Act until Sen. Schumer foolishly changed it to The Act. That was a mistake. Let the supporters own the size and cost (Big), the silliness (Beautiful), and hammer them if they propose any other piece of legislation as excessive (One).
Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Thomas Massie were the only Republicans in the House who voted Nay.
Massie wrote on X;
“Although there were some conservative wins in the budget reconciliation bill (OBBBA), I voted No on final passage because it will significantly increase U.S. budget deficits in the near term, negatively impacting all Americans through sustained inflation and high interest rates.”
Fitzpatrick wrote in a press release;
“It was the Senate’s amendments to Medicaid, in addition to several other Senate provisions, that altered the analysis for our PA-1 community. The original House language was written in a way that protected our community; the Senate amendments fell short of our standard.”
Cheers to Massie for voting Nay for the right reasons, we’re not on board with Fitzpatrick’s reasoning, and jeers to all the Democrats who can’t articulate why they oppose such a big federal bill.