Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1) to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.

Mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 9 of rule XXI, I make a point of order against consideration of the rule, House Resolution 436.

Clause 9(c) of rule XXI of the Rules of the House specifically state that the Rules Committee may not waive the earmark disclosure rule prescribed by paragraphs (a) or (b) of clause 9 of rule XXI.

House Resolution 436 states: ``All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived.''

Therefore, I make a point of order pursuant to clause 9(c) of rule XXI that this rule may not be considered.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, House Democrats are making a series of procedural motions today to stop the consideration of this lousy, awful, disastrous bill.

Mr. Speaker, we will not stand by and watch Trump and his billionaire friends destroy this country without putting up one hell of a fight, and because this resolution waives the earmark rule, it is not in order for it to be considered on the floor.

As I just said, Democrats are not going to sit here and let Republicans jam this bill down the throats of the American people. We are going to fight back, and we are going to fight like hell because, Mr. Speaker, this point of order is not just about the fact that this bill has earmarks. Look at who the earmarks are for. Look at who Republicans help and who they hurt. Follow the money.

From day one, Trump has demanded that this entire process be about one thing: giveaways to the rich and to the powerful. This bill is a scam; a tax scam designed to steal from the American people and give to Trump's millionaire and billionaire friends.

These are the same millionaires and billionaires who write big, fat checks to Members of Congress, and guess what? They expect a return on their investment, and this bill, this Republican tax scam, is exhibit

Mr. Speaker, I can't believe the Republican argument is just: Trust us.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Frost).

We are talking about an earmark for the gun lobby, my friend.

Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the gentleman from Florida.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, this is everything that people hate about Washington. This bill is a tax scam that steals from the American people, and it is filled with earmarks.

It has earmarks to the gun lobby, earmarks to polluters to be able to exploit land, and earmarks to every big donor that gives to the National Republican Congressional Committee.

This is really about corruption. This bill that we are trying to bring to the floor steals from regular people, takes away people's food benefits, throws people off healthcare, and gives a big, fat tax break to millionaires and billionaires. That is what their priorities are all about.

Mr. Speaker, I urge Democrats and Republicans who care about the integrity of this institution to vote ``no'' on considering the rule and to block this terrible tax scam from coming to the floor today. We can do a hell of a lot better. This is a disgrace.

Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``no'' vote, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

Mr. Speaker, pursuant to section 426 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, I make a point of order against consideration of the rule, House Resolution 436.

Section 426 of the Budget Act specifically states that the Rules Committee may not waive the point of order prescribed by section 425 of that same act.

House Resolution 436 states that all points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. Therefore, I make a point of order pursuant to section 426 that this rule may not be considered.

Mr. Speaker, let me say this once again. Democrats will not stand by and watch Trump and his billionaire friends destroy this country without putting up one hell of a fight.

Because this rule waives the point of order against unfunded mandates, it is not in order to consider it on the floor. The bill Republicans are attempting to jam through the House this week cuts food assistance for moms and dads, kids and people with disabilities, veterans, and seniors.

It goes after the most important people in our lives, our families, all to fund a massive tax break for the richest people in this country.

What the hell is wrong with these people, Mr. Speaker?

It is more than just a massive betrayal of the American people. This bill is also a massive, new, unfunded mandate on States.

Mr. Speaker, don't just take my word for it. The nonpartisan experts at the Congressional Budget Office said that title I of the bill, the Agriculture Committee's portion of this awful bill, would impose intergovernmental mandates by requiring States, for the first time ever, to provide State funding for food assistance benefits, increasing the share of food assistance administrative costs paid by States and requiring State agencies to perform additional administrative duties. This massive, new, unfunded mandate would cost States a whopping $19 billion each year.

Mr. Speaker, where the hell are States going to come up with this kind of money? They can't. So what will happen is that people will get kicked off of food assistance. They will get less benefits, and they will go hungry.

This will increase hunger. State after State and Governor after Governor has written to Congress begging us not to pass this awful bill. They have made it very clear that if this bill goes through, then States will be forced to cut benefits, kick eligible people off of food assistance entirely, or raise taxes to pay for this massive, new, bureaucracy that Republicans are creating in every State.

The chairman of the Agriculture Committee's home State of Pennsylvania would have to come up with over $1 billion to cover the State's share of benefit costs.

There is no State in the country that is able to take on this kind of massive, unfunded mandate. We are talking about basic needs for people, a food assistance benefit of $2 per meal so that people don't go hungry. By the way, that money not only lifts people out of poverty, it improves health and uplifts local economies too.

Hunger costs this country, and food assistance programs save us money. Workers who are hungry are less productive at work. Kids who go to school hungry don't learn. Seniors who take their medication on an empty stomach end up in emergency rooms.

We live in the richest country on Earth. For God's sake, not a single kid in this country should go to bed hungry, not a single damn one, especially not when Republicans are giving millionaires and billionaires a big, fat tax break.

Mr. Speaker, I think Republicans know exactly what they are doing here. They know that this bill will kick millions and millions of people off of their modest food assistance. They know that their cuts will hurt kids, moms and dads, working families, seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities. This is an unbelievably cruel and rotten thing to do.

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, enough with the BS about States having skin in the game. This is about throwing families off of food assistance, and it is an awful thing to do.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Mrs. Hayes), who is the ranking member of the Nutrition Subcommittee.

Mr. Speaker, by the way, it is not just people in Connecticut who are threatened by this budget. I would say to the gentlewoman from Indiana that there are 54,000 people in her district who are going to be threatened, losing their SNAP benefits because of what Republicans are voting for today on the Republican budget. I don't know how you deal with that.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Brown), the vice ranking member of the Agriculture Committee.

Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how many more speakers the gentlewoman has.

Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time I have remaining.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, let me just say to my Republican friends that hunger is a political position. We have the money. We have the infrastructure. We know what to do to end it. We have everything but the political will.

You bring to the floor a bill that robs from poor people and takes money away from the most incredible food assistance program in the world. You take that and use it not to end hunger but to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. That is shameful. That is shameful.

You put a big unfunded mandate on States. Stand with us on the right side of history. Stand with people who need help. For once in your life, do something to help people who really need help and not just reward those at the top who are well-off and well-connected.

Stand with us in stopping this rule and vote ``no'' on this.

Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, over 100 Democrats just spent hours and hours debating hundreds of amendments in the Rules Committee for over 19 hours, and the reason why is simple: We are fighting back because this bill is a moral disgrace.

It rips healthcare from millions of Americans. It guts Medicaid and Medicare, lifelines for seniors, children, working families, and people with disabilities. It takes food out of the mouths of hungry kids and veterans. For what? To shovel tax breaks into the overflowing pockets of billionaires and giant corporations.

Let's call this what it is: theft. It is stealing from those with the least to give to those with the most.

It is not just bad policy. It is a betrayal. It is a betrayal of the American people. Republicans know that this bill is toxic, and that is why they started their rules hearing at 1 o'clock, by the way, yesterday morning. They are terrified that the American people might actually see what is in this GOP tax scam and be outraged by what they are doing.

Republicans don't want to talk about it. They want us to just shut up and pass this bill. They want it rubberstamped. Trump said to them: Close your eyes and vote for it. Guess what? No, no, no. We are not going to do that. We will not stay silent. We will not close our eyes and do what Trump says.

Our eyes are open, Mr. Speaker, and our voices are loud. We are here to fight, and this bill is about whose side you are on.

Democrats choose to stand with our communities, our neighbors, our families, and our people, and not the ultrarich Republican mega-donors and billionaires that write big, fat campaign contributions to buy votes.

This is a rotten, ugly, bad bill that will hurt the people I represent. It will hurt millions of people in this country, but the sad reality is, Mr. Speaker, Republicans just don't care.

Democrats are united, and with strength in our mission, with unity in our purpose, we are here to vote ``hell, no'' on this monstrosity of a bill.

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, let me just say to the distinguished chairwoman of the Rules Committee: Do you know what gives people fiscal certainty? It is food in their refrigerators.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms. DeGette).

Mr. Speaker, some people may be wondering why we are debating this bill at 1:20 in the morning, which is prime time in Guam. It is because they are ashamed of what they are bringing to this House floor, and they should be ashamed.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. Tran).

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, my friends are so proud of this bill that they are doing it at 1:25 a.m.

The bottom line is the reason why we don't like the bill is that we don't think billionaires deserve any more tax

cuts, and we don't want to support a bill that screws regular people.

Mr. Speaker, I am going to urge that we defeat the previous question. If we do, I will offer an amendment to the rule to make in order amendment No. 233 offered by Leader Jeffries, which strikes all provisions that would cause millions of Americans to lose healthcare and food assistance.

We spent over 20 hours in the Rules Committee today trying to stop this ugly, cruel Republican bill. Over 100 Democrats came to testify. We did everything we could to get them to change this bill so that it would not strip healthcare and food assistance from the most vulnerable people in our Nation.

Now, we will give Republicans one last chance not to strip vital programs like Medicaid and SNAP away from millions of Americans.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my amendment into the Record, along with any extraneous material, immediately prior to the vote on the previous question.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Underwood) to discuss our proposal.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Massie), a man who is not afraid to speak his mind about fiscal responsibility.

Mr. Speaker, you have got to love these Republicans. The two things they don't want to talk about are tax cuts for billionaires, which are in this budget reconciliation, and the debt. This bill adds trillions to the debt.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Nevada (Ms. Titus).

Mr. Speaker, boy, that was weird.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Magaziner).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from New Jersey (Ms. Pou).

Mr. Speaker, I would say to the gentleman the reason why the tax cuts for middle-class families might expire is because that is the way they wrote them in the 2017 Republican tax scam bill.

Republicans made the corporate tax cuts permanent. Republicans made those tax cuts for working people expire. It is their fault.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Casten).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New Hampshire (Mr. Pappas).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Ohio (Mrs. Sykes).

Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 15 seconds to the gentlewoman from Ohio.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Figures).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Delaware (Ms. McBride).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Aguilar), chairman of the Democratic Caucus.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Ocasio-Cortez).

Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the gentlewoman from New York.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), the Speaker Emerita.

Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the gentlewoman from California.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz).

Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time I have remaining.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, one of the previous Republican speakers got up and said: Rome is burning. I hate to tell him, but Republicans are in charge, and Trump is your Caesar.

CBO just did an analysis of this budget, and they did an analysis as to how it impacts the bottom 10 percent and the top 10 percent income earners of this country. Guess what? The bottom 10 percent gets screwed, and the top 10 percent gets a big raise in terms of revenue, in terms of tax breaks.

Let me end where I began, Mr. Speaker. This is about whose side you are on. Whose side are you on, Mr. Speaker? From where I stand, it looks like you and the entire Republican Party betrayed the American people to side with the billionaires.

People are so tired of getting screwed over by a system that doesn't work for them. They are fed up, and they want change. They want us to make things better for regular, hardworking people, not just the rich and the powerful.

What Republicans' big, ugly bill does is the exact opposite. Our colleagues and Trump are perpetuating the exact broken system that people hate and despise: more tax breaks for billionaires while regular people get screwed; more giveaways for the rich and powerful while moms and dads struggle to get by; and more loopholes into the tax code for Wall Street while working families fall further and further behind.

That is the Republican agenda. That is what my colleagues on the other side of the aisle think is big and beautiful--greed, corruption, and tax breaks for billionaires. My State of Massachusetts funds States like Indiana, where the gentlewoman is from. We get back less than we give. How dare she or anybody else vote to steal our tax money and give it to billionaires.

Mr. Speaker, no, we will not go quietly. No, we will not give up. We will fight this cruel, corrupt, immoral bill every step of the way because the people we represent are counting on us, and we will never stop fighting for them.

Mr. Speaker, I urge every Member of this House to vote ``hell no,'' ``never,'' ``absolutely not,'' on this terrible disgrace of a bill.

Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 436 and ask for its immediate consideration.

Mr. Speaker, I claim time in favor of consideration of the resolution.

The question before the House is: Should the House now consider House Resolution 436? The resolution before us waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.

The Committee on the Budget filed its report on May 21, 2025, which included the following statement from each instructed committee's reports: The committee print does not contain any congressional earmark, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits, as defined in clause 9 of House rule XXI.

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Griffith).

Mr. Speaker, this is just a dilatory tactic by my colleagues across the aisle. We must continue so the House can begin consideration of this historic legislation and deliver on President Trump's agenda.

Mr. Speaker, I urge Members to vote ``yes'' on the question, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I claim the time in opposition to this point of

order and in favor of consideration of the resolution.

Mr. Speaker, the question before the House is: Should the House now consider House Resolution 436?

The gentleman on the other side of the aisle is certainly correct. The bill before us today does impose a number of intergovernmental mandates. However, let's look at what is considered in those. The bill requires States to have skin in the game on SNAP. The bill requires States to be more responsible about how Medicaid is funded. The bill provides needed tax relief for seniors.

These are good things that reduce the size and scope of Federal Government that is encroaching on the everyday lives of Americans, and it protects the American people from a Democratic Party that prioritizes illegal immigrants over vulnerable American families.

In order to allow the House to continue its scheduled business for the day, I urge Members to vote ``yes'' on the question of consideration of the resolution, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close.

Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time I have remaining.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, the Democrats claim that this is providing tax cuts for the wealthy. Let's just talk about that.

This bill includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and provides tax relief for seniors on Social Security. This will protect the largest tax cut for middle-class and working families in American history. Americans will see a double-digit percent decrease in their taxes.

If we want to talk about districts, Mr. Speaker, let's talk about the Second District of Massachusetts. It is home to 524,530 taxpayers.

The average taxpayer in Massachusetts' Second District would see a 20 percent tax hike if the Trump tax cuts expire, which is what my Democratic colleagues across the aisle are fighting for. They are fighting for taxes to go up.

A family of four, making $95,495 in the Massachusetts Second District, the median income, would see a $2,141 tax increase if the Trump tax cuts expire. That is about 10 weeks' worth of groceries for a typical family of four in that region.

Now, let's talk for a moment, too, Mr. Speaker, about SNAP benefits. Only Democrats would protect error rates in SNAP benefits, saying that integrity in the program is a cut, but this is ensuring that benefits are available to the people who are eligible for them and need them most. Anything else is fraud.

Republicans are ensuring that SNAP prioritizes benefits for American citizens and protects the program's long-term stability by closing loopholes and requiring cost sharing for States that have error rates that are unfeasible.

We are focusing on protecting tax cuts for the American people across the board. That is what we are trying to do here, Mr. Speaker. Anything else that we hear from the Democrats is a stall tactic.

We must continue so the House can begin our consideration of this historic legislation to deliver on President Trump's agenda.

Mr. Speaker, I urge our Members to vote ``yes'' on the question, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the purpose of debate only.

General Leave

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this rule and in support of the underlying legislation.

This morning, the Rules Committee met and produced a rule, House Resolution 436, providing for the House's consideration of H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

This provides for a closed rule on the bill. The rule provides 1 hour of debate for the chair and ranking member of the Committee on the Budget or their respective designees, as well as an additional 1 hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking member of the Committee on Ways and Means or their respective designees. Additionally, the rule provides 1 motion to recommit.

Today, after months of hard work and hours of testimony in hearings, House Republicans are advancing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to deliver on President Trump's America First agenda.

Mr. Speaker, we have heard plenty of fear-mongering and flatout dishonesty from the Democrats and their liberal media allies about what this bill actually does.

Earlier this morning, Democrats challenged us to debate this bill in the light of day. Mr. Speaker, it may be the middle of the night. Yet, we are here, wide awake and ready to defend it because the truth doesn't sleep, and neither do we when it comes to fighting for the American people.

Mr. Speaker, let's talk about how this bill delivers for the American people.

It makes the very successful 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent, protecting the average taxpayer from a 22 percent tax increase. It unleashes American energy production and allows us to drill, baby, drill.

It provides the largest border security investment in history and empowers ICE to deport the millions of illegal immigrants that were allowed in under President Joe Biden.

It also completes 700 miles of border wall and stops the flow of fentanyl into our communities.

It shuts down the blatant abuse that has allowed 1.4 million illegal immigrants to access taxpayer-funded Medicaid, draining resources meant for our most vulnerable citizens.

It establishes modest work requirements for able-bodied adults with no dependents who receive Medicaid.

It drives down costs for seniors by increasing the transparency of pharmacy benefit managers and expanding access to the medications seniors need by providing more choices.

It ends the reckless Biden student loan giveaways that favored liberal elites over working-class Americans at taxpayers' expense.

It provides nearly $150 billion in resources to our military to improve areas from servicemember quality of life to strengthening our shipbuilding capacity.

It also makes targeted reinvestments and improvements to foreign policy and other rural priorities that support our farmers and ranchers.

It includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, car loan interest deductibility for autos made in America, and provides tax relief for seniors.

The list of wins goes on and on and on in this one big, beautiful bill.

Our friends across the aisle will try to deflect from these real and tangible benefits. They want to deceive and scare the American people, and I am sorry for that. Don't believe them.

My Democratic colleagues seem to forget that 77 million Americans rejected their America-last policies last November. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle are now trying to convince the American people that a bill that secures the border; invests in our military; extends tax relief to millions of hardworking Americans; and protects Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security for the people who need it most is somehow not in the best interests of the country.

Yet, the American people know better. The American people know Trump's tax cuts worked and need to be extended. The American people know that it is in the best interests of our national security to secure the border. They know the world needs American energy leadership. They know that the men and women who serve in the Armed Forces need additional resources to counter the growing threats and defend American interests across the globe.

We are putting Americans first by deporting illegal immigrants and protecting taxpayer-funded benefits for those who truly need them. Everything you will hear from the Democrats tonight is wrong. Again, don't believe them.

How many times do you have to get duped by their dishonesty before you stop listening? The sky is not falling.

Mr. Speaker, today, we are delivering on President Trump's agenda. I look forward to the consideration of this one big, beautiful bill, and I urge the passage of this rule.

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Foxx), chairwoman of the Rules Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Langworthy).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Alford), my friend.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Utah (Ms. Maloy), my very good friend.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Nunn).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Meuser).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Taylor).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Montana (Mr. Downing).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Haridopolos).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Moore).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. McDowell.)

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Kennedy).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Luna).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from North Dakota (Mrs. Fedorchak).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Van Orden).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Edwards).

Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the gentleman from North Carolina.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Fine).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Crank).

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, Rome is burning, but not because of the leadership of Republicans and Donald Trump. After 4 years of failed leadership under President Biden, our country faces many challenges.

Yet, Republicans, along with President Trump, are ready to address them head on and get our country back on track. The one big, beautiful bill is here, and the American people are ready to see us deliver on our promises.

This is historic legislation that is a bill for working Americans. Here are three words I want my colleagues to remember: ``ineligible,'' ``illegal,'' and ``able.'' Those are the people who we don't believe should be taking Medicaid from pregnant women, children, the disabled, and the elderly.

We have heard a lot about 13.7 million people are going to lose their healthcare. That number was debunked by The New York Times. That is a newspaper that doesn't write a lot of things that are friendly to our side. It is not that way.

This is a bill that is going to support pregnant women, children, the disabled, and the elderly. It supports our veterans, our farmers, and our small business owners. It secures tax certainty, permitting reform, and our border.

Mr. Speaker, put quite simply, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is America First, and I am proud to support it. With this vote, we can unlock the golden age of America. I look forward to moving the One Big Beautiful Bill Act out of the House and delivering for the American people who voted for the golden age to return.

I ask my colleagues to join me in voting ``yes'' on the previous question, and ``yes'' on the rule.

Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the previous question on the resolution.

Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 436, I call up the bill (H.R. 1) to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on H.R. 1.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, for the last 4 years, the American people have suffered one self-inflicted crisis after another--from the chaos at our southern border, to our crime ridden streets, to a cost-of-living crisis that decimated working families from sea to shining sea--leaving Americans weaker, our country more divided, and more vulnerable than it has been in generations.

Mr. Speaker, lest we forget how we got here and why this moment is so important and so consequential in the life of our country. Let's reflect on the recent history.

Under the leadership of Biden-Harris and congressional Democrats, our Federal Government failed to enforce the laws of our land and unilaterally surrendered our sovereign border to terrorist drug cartels.

On top of that, our military mission was reduced from warfighter readiness to ideological indoctrination. We lost the confidence of our allies, the respect of our enemies, and America's influence on the world stage.

Unbridled spending and failed fiscal policies sent our country's economy into a tailspin. Trillions in deficit spending, trillions more in regulations, cradle-to-grave welfare without work, and an all-out assault on American energy independence wreaked havoc on our economy and created the worst inflation crisis in 40 years.

In November, the American people gave President Trump a historic mandate and unified Republican leadership in Congress to reverse course on these failed policies and their disastrous consequences.

That is exactly what this bill does, Mr. Speaker.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act delivers:

The greatest single investment in border security and national defense.

The largest tax cuts for families and small businesses.

The most significant commitment to unlocking America's energy resources.

The largest reduction in spending in the history of the United States by two-fold.

However, in an attempt to derail our efforts, Mr. Speaker, you can be sure of this: Our Democratic colleagues will use their tired, old tactics of fear-mongering and false claims.

Mr. Speaker, they would like to lead you to believe that this reconciliation bill is a ``tax cut for the rich on the backs of the poor.'' Their narrative throughout this process has not only been misleading, Mr. Speaker, and completely untrue, it preys on the fears of our Nation's most vulnerable.

Here is the truth: The 2017 tax cuts lowered tax rates for every American household at every income level with the lower income families benefiting the most while actually increasing the amount of taxes paid at the top 1 percent.

Mr. Speaker, $3 out of every $4 in the Trump tax cuts didn't go to corporations. They went to individuals.

Workers experienced a record 25-year wage increase. Families received an additional $5,000 in median household income, and income for the bottom 50 percent grew three times faster than the top 1 percent.

As a result, Mr. Speaker, a record 6 million Americans were lifted out of poverty.

This won't stop our Democrat colleagues from scaring you, Mr. Speaker, with fallacious statements that children will go without food, seniors will be stranded without healthcare, and the disabled will be left to die in the streets.

All of this is just a cover for what they really want to do. They want to protect healthcare and welfare at any cost for illegal immigrants at the expense of hardworking taxpayers and our--our-- citizens who depend on them.

Crazily enough, Mr. Speaker, they also want to abandon the commonsense, Clinton-era work requirements that reduced government dependency by 80 percent. Instead, they would trap millions of people in poverty and rob them of the dignity of work.

By the overwhelming results of this last election, it is abundantly clear that the American people see through this too, and they have totally rejected the Democrats' radical agenda.

Their message to Washington was clear, Mr. Speaker. They want competent leaders, commonsense policies, and a commitment from all of us to put America and Americans first.

Now let's give the people what they voted for.

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, just to be clear, the CBO doesn't say economic benefits. It talks about Federal resources. That letter actually affirms the success of our bill.

Because of reasonable, commonsense work requirements and because of prohibitions on illegal immigrants getting taxpayer-funded social services, we will actually have people moving up and out of the welfare trap. We won't have people siphoning off money who are not eligible.

That is success--not to them, but success to my Republican colleagues.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Thompson), my good friend from the Keystone State and the chair of the Agriculture Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Hill), the chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services.

Mr. Speaker, my Democratic colleagues surely recognize and remember that for the last 4 years they racked up $8 trillion in record debt. If we add the record interest rates

from the record inflation, that would be another $5 trillion. I don't know that we need a whole lot more lecturing on the national debt.

Our balanced budget reconciliation bill actually reduces the deficit in the 10-year window by $140 billion, and it brings the debt to GDP down by 10 percentage points.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Guthrie), the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Mr. Speaker, 91 percent, on average, of my colleagues, voters, constituents, friends, and families, pay the standard deduction. Democrats' opposition to this bill, if they were successful, would actually cut the standard deduction in half.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Graves), our Transportation and Infrastructure chair.

Mr. Speaker, I remind my colleagues that, over the last 4 years, their failed economic policies and their unbridled spending put a 20 percent regressive inflation tax on working families all across this great land.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Jordan), my good friend and our GOP chair of the Judiciary Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, I have great respect for my ranking member, but he is rattling off numbers and saying that this many people will come off of the welfare rolls in my colleagues' districts.

Let's remind the American people: The people he is talking about are folks who are in this country illegally, or they are able to work, and they are not working. They are able to work, and they are not working.

Mr. Speaker, for the record, Democrats are opposing the commonsense policy and what every American's expectation is at a base level that people who are able to work will work. It is good for their soul. It is good for this country. It is the right policy, and my Democratic colleagues are fighting us on it.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from the Keystone State, Pennsylvania (Mr. Smucker), my friend and vice chairman of the Budget Committee.

Mr. Speaker, according to NumbersUSA, over the last 4 years when the Democrats were in charge of this town and millions of people were flooding into this country from across our border, we were spending $9,000 per illegal immigrant on taxpayer-funded social services.

Mr. Speaker, that is more than we spend on our own citizens who depend on Medicaid. That is more than we spend on military benefits for our veterans.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. McClintock), my friend and fellow Budget Committee member.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gill), a fellow Texan who is also on the Budget Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I agree with the gentleman. Budgets do reflect values. The values of the Republican Party and my colleagues are to protect 40 million families from having their child tax credit cut in half, 26 million small businesses who have the highest marginal rates would lose the 20 percent deduction, 2 million family-owned farms and the farming families would have the debt tax exemption slashed in half.

Mr. Speaker, those are our values. We want people to keep more of their money. We want this economy to grow. We want people to have better opportunities and bigger paychecks. We want to give folks hope for a better life to come up and out of poverty, out of welfare, and put their God-given talents to use.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Carter), a friend and fellow member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, I will tell you what is big: $900 billion in special interest tax breaks to green energy corporations that my colleagues passed unilaterally in the Inflation Reduction Act. That is big.

The billionaires that got rich off their tax breaks got a big break, and we aim to phase them out or repeal them so we can bring energy costs down and strengthen America's energy independence.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Stutzman), my friend.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, one of the problems with the work requirements in the supplemental nutrition program--and I am sure Mr. Takano knows this--is that States have been allowed to game the system and not effectively enforce those for able-bodied adults receiving services.

In California, in fact, nobody is working who is on food stamps who is able to work. Nobody is working, so it is not fair to those people. It is not fair to rob them of the dignity of work. It is not fair in our fiduciary role to the taxpayer.

Mr. Speaker, we are turning this ship around. We are cleaning the mess up here in Washington. We are putting incentives in place that will do well by everybody involved.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Joyce), my friend.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Fry).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Walberg), my good friend and the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, I don't think it is a scam to prevent a 22 percent tax hike on average Americans. Let's be clear. My colleagues and I don't think it is a scam to steward tax dollars and root out waste, fraud, and abuse across the people's government.

We don't think it is a scam to prohibit people who are not citizens of our country from draining the Social Security safety net and impacting its sustainability for future vulnerable Americans. That is not a scam. That is our job. We intend to do it.

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Edwards), also a House Budget Committee member.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, by my calculation, I have now been up 43 of the last 45 hours, and I am not quitting yet. We are not quitting yet. That is because the stakes are just too damn high.

This is one of the most significant pieces of legislation we will ever vote on. This bill will bring about the greatest loss of healthcare in American history.

More than 6 million Americans who are currently on the Affordable Care Act will lose their health insurance if this Republican bill becomes law. More than 7 million Americans currently on Medicaid will lose their healthcare if this Republican bill becomes law. In fact, in total, 13.7 million Americans will lose their healthcare, according to the nonpartisan CBO.

That is bad enough, but then, late last night, we also got confirmation from CBO that something else is in this bill: over $500 billion worth of cuts to Medicare.

All told, given the cuts to the ACA, the cuts to Medicaid, and the cuts to Medicare, it is the largest loss of healthcare in American history as a result of this bill. Not even during the Great Depression did so many people lose their healthcare as will lose it in this bill.

There are even more cuts beyond that: cuts to nutrition assistance programs, cuts to Head Start, cuts to other education programs. The list goes on and on. Why? To help pay for over $5 trillion worth of tax cuts, most of which go to the top 1 percent.

As draconian as these cuts are, they actually don't even come close to paying for the size of the tax cuts.

How is the rest subsidized? With more debt financing, so much so that we have finally seen for the first time ever the Moody's Credit Agency on Friday downgrade the quality of the credit of the United States.

Today, we saw more market churn. Markets are worried. Now, most ordinary Americans, most people I call neighbors and friends back home in Northeast Philly, a very working-class and middle-class place, most people I know aren't paying attention to credit agencies and what Wall Street is doing, but it will affect interest rates. In fact, it already is.

Mortgage rates have gone back up over 7 percent and are set to rise by more. It is not just mortgage rates but auto loan rates and the rate that your credit card company charges.

At a time of increasing unaffordability in America, this bill doesn't make the situation better. It makes it far, far worse.

Mr. Speaker, this is not the kind of bill that is worthy of the Congress of

the United States. This is class warfare. It makes the poor poorer, the rich richer, and the middle class left behind.

Again, these aren't Democratic talking points. These aren't coming from progressive organizations. Last night, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released the distribution tables in terms of who will get what from this tax bill. They found the bottom 10 percent will be 4 percent poorer in household wealth under this bill, with most of the benefits going to the top 10 percent of Americans. Of that top 10 percent, of course, it is the top 1 percent that will get the most benefit of all.

Robbing the poor to reward the rich is wrong, bad economics, and, as one Republican Senator called it, morally wrong.

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I remind my friend that this bill will kick 404,000 people in our State of Pennsylvania off their health insurance.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Doggett), the ranking member of the Health Subcommittee on the Ways and Means Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I would remind my friend from Arkansas this bill would kick 131,000 people in Arkansas off their health insurance.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from the Commonwealth of Virginia (Mr. Scott), the distinguished ranking member of the Education and Workforce Committee and also a member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I would remind my good friend that this bill will kick 159,000 people in the Commonwealth of Kentucky off their health insurance.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Vermont (Ms. Balint), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I would correct a disingenuous argument that has been offered repeatedly.

Folks on the other side throughout this past week and a half, 2 weeks, and we heard it tonight, say: Well, if we don't pass this bill, most Americans will face a tax increase. That is completely false.

Time and again over the past 2 weeks, both in Ways and Means and Rules, Democratic Members offered amendments to protect and extend the tax cuts for every American making under $1 billion a year. Every single Democrat voted for those amendments. Every single Republican voted against them.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I remind the gentleman that this bill will kick 404,000 people in Ohio off of their health insurance.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Jayapal), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I have good news for my friend, the chairman of the Budget Committee.

We just verified with the Congressional Budget Office, and of the 13.7 million Americans who will lose their healthcare because of their bill, exactly zero are undocumented immigrants.

Mr. Speaker, the complete artifice that the other side is attempting to convince you of is that almost 14 million Americans will lose their healthcare, but don't worry about it. They are all illegals. They are all people who are defrauding the system. It is completely false, and every independent source has verified that it is false.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Chu), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I remind the gentleman that this bill would kick 1.98 million people in California off their health insurance.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Tonko), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. Speaker, the reality is, this bill, not according to our numbers, according to independent, certified, nonpartisan authority on this matter, verified at least 13.7 million Americans will lose their health insurance. Do you know why they want to talk about every subject under the Sun other than this? Because they know it is going to have devastating consequences for the American people, and it will have devastating consequences for them next November.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. McGarvey), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Amo), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. Speaker, this bill will kick 494,000 people in Georgia off their health insurance.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Larsen), the distinguished ranking member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Raskin), the distinguished ranking member of the Judiciary Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, one challenge with doing this massive bill literally in the middle of the night--as I look up, if I am reading that correctly, it is 3:45 a.m. right now--there are all sorts of provisions that we are discovering in this massive piece of legislation being rushed through in the dead of the night.

I want to call out just one deeply troubling provision hidden in this bill, a provision that blocks States from regulating artificial intelligence for the next 10 years.

AI has the potential to be transformative, but only if it is developed and used in a safe, responsible way. That requires strong guardrails. This bill does the opposite.

The fact this was quietly tucked into this budget bill is reckless and wrong. It shows exactly who this bill was written for--not working families, but powerful special interests.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. Takano), the ranking member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I would remind my friend from the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that this bill will kick 404,000 people in our State off their health insurance.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. Ruiz), a distinguished member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I would remind the gentleman this bill will kick 220,000 people in South Carolina off their health insurance.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Massachusetts (Mrs. Trahan), a distinguished member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I would remind the gentleman this bill will kick 370,000 people in Michigan off their health insurance.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Olszewski), a distinguished member of the Small Business Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Virginia (Ms. McClellan), a distinguished member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Kamlager-Dove), who is a distinguished member of the Judiciary Committee.

Mr. Speaker, this is a moment I am never going to forget because, tonight, hundreds of Republican Members of Congress are wanting to line up to vote for the biggest transfer of wealth from the working poor and the working class to billionaires and megacorporations that we have seen in this country's history.

This is a deep moment of betrayal, a complete absence of loyalty to the people that we represent, and an abandonment of the values of hard work and a dignified life.

Mr. Speaker, I am 28 years old. My generation already expects that we will never be able to afford a home, to get out of debt, to retire, or to live comfortably. No, it is not because we have lived beyond our means, but it is because we have been denied the means to live.

Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are making it worse by gutting Medicaid and food assistance to give tax cuts to billionaires and special interests.

Mr. Speaker, out of all of the things that you could give tax breaks for, this bill will cut taxes on silencers for guns. For those who don't know, gun silencers can be attached to a gun to muffle the sound of a gunshot.

In mass shootings, these silencers make it harder to identify and respond to the source of the gunshots. Earlier, I put forth an amendment to strip this tax cut for the gun lobby, and House Republicans wouldn't even let it come up for a vote.

Mr. Speaker, the Republicans then made the bill worse in their manager's amendment by making silencers completely unregulated. In 2023 alone, the ATF recovered over 400 silencers from violent crime scenes. For this reason, silencers have been highly regulated for nearly 100 years.

In May of 2019, the Virginia Beach shooter attached a silencer to his .45-caliber handgun that he used to kill 12 people on three floors of a city building. Survivors of the attack said that they weren't even aware that a mass shooting was going on due to the silencer.

My question is: Why did this get added to the bill just a couple of hours ago? Which congressional Republican just couldn't stand to vote for the horrible bill until it promised even more death to people?

Mr. Speaker, I will yield to hear a name.

Point of Order

Mr. Speaker, I reclaim my time.

Mr. Speaker, I will yield just to hear the name of the Republican that couldn't vote for this bill.

Mr. Speaker, I am just curious which Republican couldn't vote for the bill until we completely deregulated silencers.

My generation isn't just defined by a bleak financial future. We are also defined as the mass shooting generation. We have done more active- shooter drills than fire drills. We have grown up watching classes of our students die a brutal death, helpless inside classrooms, on our blocks, and in our churches again and again and again.

Mr. Speaker, I say to America, we have to be very clear and truthful about this budget. Laws for gun manufacturers to make more money off the deaths of children and our people? Yes. Food for children to eat? No. Healthcare for seniors, disabled Americans, and millions more? No. Resources to help working families fight to make ends meet? No.

This is why they have been told to not host any townhalls back in their districts. That is why this debate is happening in the middle of the night. It is nothing short of theft.

Congressional Republicans are really helping me understand why half of this country doesn't vote. It is because they will look people in the eyes and make promises only to come here in the middle of the night to advance a bill that will take away the benefits that they have earned. Republicans would have us believe that the person most likely to steal from you is a Black person in a hoodie or an immigrant with tattoos.

This is to distract from the fact that, at least here tonight, the people stealing from Americans are not folks with tattoos and hoodies. It is people wearing suits, ties, and congressional pins, sitting in this Capitol right now, not in some random alley wrapped in darkness, but in the United States Congress wrapped in the flag.

It is disgusting, and we will never forget this.