Seth Magaziner: “We are here today debating and wasting time on a ridiculous bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico when the American people…”

“We are here today debating and wasting time on a ridiculous bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico when the American people want us to be focused on real issues that impact their lives. Prices are still too high. Donald Trump's tariffs are making it worse. The stock market is tanking. People are losing their savings, and in the midst of all this, the Republican majority isn't focused on trying to solve the problems that everyday people care about. Instead, they are focused on stroking the ego of one man, Donald Trump, the man who they would make king. We are wasting time today, an entire legislative day where this is the only bill that is being debated, so that our Republican colleagues can get up and show their fealty to Donald Trump instead of the voters who elected us who expect us to be focused on them. Another reason that Republicans are wasting time on this bill--which, by the way, 70 percent of the American people oppose--is because they want to distract us from what else they are trying to do. They are working on a bill right now that would give trillions of dollars of tax cuts to billionaires like Elon Musk by cutting healthcare for working people. They don't want to talk about that. That part they only talk about behind closed doors while they distract the media, the American people, and their own Members with this nonsense bill about the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Speaker, the American people are smarter than this.…”