Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, D-Massachusetts, said Republicans are scheduling votes "in the dead of night" to escape criticism over their budget bill. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The legislative negotiations over the GOP's budget bill have circulated around what federal programs, or funding, will need to be cut in order to extend the president's tax cuts from his first term, which are set to expire. Among those cuts are new provisions to federal healthcare programs, like Medicaid, which Democrats have slammed as a move to take away public healthcare programs from those who need them the most.
"Republicans know that their efforts to take away health care from millions of Americans is deeply unpopular. Republicans know that the effort to enact the largest cut to nutritional assistance in American history, which will literally take food from the mouths of children, veterans and seniors, is deeply unpopular. Republicans know that providing billionaire donors with a massive tax break for people, like Elon Musk, and at the same time, exploding the deficit by trillions of dollars is deeply unpopular," the Democrats' House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said during a Monday afternoon press conference.
"That's why Republicans are going to try to advance this bill in the dead of night at 1 a.m. in the morning."
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Republicans on Capitol Hill are currently pushing President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" budget bill to the finish line, with the hopes of getting it passed by Memorial Day, but this urgency has led Democrats to describe the process as rushed and lacking transparency. (Getty)
But that hasn't stopped Democrats from claiming Republicans are engaging in late-night votes to somehow keep the budget bill process out of the limelight.
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"Remember when Republicans said late-night sessions were ‘not what the country needs or deserves’ during the American Rescue Plan? Now they’re getting ready to make dramatic cuts to Medicaid and SNAP so they can give tax breaks for billionaires - in the dead of night," Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., said following news of the Wednesday morning Rules Committee session. "Hypocrisy on full display."
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