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The Republicans of the Chamber must know the political consequences of what they have done.
By a margin of 215-214, the Republicans adopted Trump's tax reductions for the rich. What President Mike Johnson has been doing for his majority was an act of political suicide to give the billionaires a massive tax reduction.
The Democratic Directorate of the Chamber (Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the whip Katherine Clark and the president of the Caucus Pete Aguilar) published a statement after the vote:
Today, each Democrat in the House has voted to stop the largest cups in Medicaid and food assistance in American history. The GOP tax scam tears health care and food assistance to millions of people in order to provide tax reductions to the rich, easy and well connected.
House republicans have promised to reduce costs. Instead, a large ugly bill of Donald Trump will mean that millions of families will pay bonuses, copays and higher franchises. Hospitals will close, nursing homes will close and communities will suffer. This will remove food from the mouths of children, the elderly and veterans at a time when too many families have trouble living the pay check.
The GOP tax scam is deeply unpopular, which is why the Republicans have done everything possible to move it forward during the nights of the night. For more than 28 hours, starting with the member of the rules committee, Jim McGovern, the Democrats forced the Republicans to debate this toxic legislation before the American people. This fight is just beginning, and the Democrats of the Chamber will continue to use all the tools at our disposal to ensure that the GOP tax scam is buried deep in the ground, never to get up again.
Each Democrat in the House voted against this legislation. There was no bipartite involved in the process. The Democrats fought the Republicans of the Chamber at each stage of the path and made the adoption of this legislation extremely long and painful for the Republicans.
The legislation on tax reductions is a time bomb in several respects. The Republicans have developed the bill so that the painful cuts of social programs only take effect after the 2026 and 2028 elections, but the cuts will have to be made well before the level of the state to prepare the oblique bars of the funding.