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Jamie Raskin: “I found the preamble to this big ugly bill: We, the billionaires and our king, in order to deform and sicken our Union…”

On the recordJuly 2, 2025
I found the preamble to this big ugly bill: We, the billionaires and our king, in order to deform and sicken our Union, establish injustice, ensure domestic servility, weaken our people's defenses, undermine the general welfare, and reserve to ourselves and our posterity staggering debt servitude for eternity, do hereby instruct the Republicans in Congress to strip 17 million people of their healthcare, increase copays, deductibles, and premiums for everyone else, cut 42 million people off of nutritional assistance, increase the national debt by $4 trillion, trash renewable energy systems, increase our electric bills for the carbon kings, all to weaken and destroy the Constitution of the people of these United States of America. Please include this preamble in the legislative Record.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

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Criticizing a proposed bill's impact on healthcare, nutrition, and the Constitution.

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