I have no ill feelings toward the speaker, none toward the persons that escorted me away from the floor, because I did disrupt. And I did so because the president indicated that he had a mandate. And I wanted him to know that he didn’t have a mandate to cut Medicaid.
Green explains his disruption of Trump's address, emphasizing opposition to Medicaid cuts.
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