Katherine Clark: “Despite all the promises on the campaign trail, House Republicans have chosen to do three things with their majority…”

“Despite all the promises on the campaign trail, House Republicans have chosen to do three things with their majority: raise the cost of putting food on the table, raise the cost of getting healthcare, and use that money, deserving taxpayers' money, to cut billionaires' taxes. That is it. That is the agenda. Let's look at the scale of what Republicans are sacrificing: funding that feeds 15 million children, a program that pays for half of all the births in America, and a service that keeps nursing homes and health centers' doors open. This is all to cut Elon's taxes. If that sounds outrageous to you, Madam Chair, and I sure hope it does, you are not alone. Let's be clear about the kind of money we are talking about. Do you know what it costs to keep a kid on Medicaid? It costs $10 a day. How about how much it costs to keep that child fed with SNAP benefits? It costs $6 a day. What do Republicans want to give away to the already rich? They want to give $6 million per billionaire. Think about that. For a billionaire, $6 million is not even a rounding error. For a hungry child, it is enough to eat every single day for 34 lifetimes. Inflicting hunger on children to give billionaires money they don't need and won't even notice, there is no moral code under which that is acceptable. There is no public demand for it. There is no logical reason for it other than total fealty to billionaire donors, billionaires who will never feel they have enough.…”