5 things Jeffries said in his record-breaking House floor speech

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‘Budgets are moral documents’​

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Jeffries repeatedly decried Trump’s spending bill for its historic cuts to spending on social safety-net programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). He also highlighted many amendments Democrats tried to make to the measure that House Republicans opposed. Some of those amendments, he argued, would have saved many Americans’ eligibility for food assistance and health care access.

 
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‘What deals were cut?’​

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Jeffries noted some of his GOP colleagues once held “principled opposition” to Trump’s massive tax and immigration bill — a few as recently as “several hours ago.” Notably, Rep. Ralph Norman (R-South Carolina) had called the version of the bill passed by the Senate a “nonstarter” on Tuesday and then voted to advance it Wednesday night.
 
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‘You are the swamp’​

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Some of the most boisterous applause for Jeffries came after he accused nameless Republicans of being corrupt.

“Extraordinary to me, Mr. Speaker, that you got folks in this town talking about draining the swamp. Guess what? You are the swamp. You are the swamp. You are the swamp,” Jeffries said, as his Democratic colleagues clapped. “We’ve never seen anything like this. The type of corruption that has been unleashed on the American people and has poisoned, Mr. Speaker, this bill.”
 
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Jeffries repeatedly decried Trump’s spending bill for its historic cuts to spending on social safety-net programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). He also highlighted many amendments Democrats tried to make to the measure that House Republicans opposed. Some of those amendments, he argued, would have saved many Americans’ eligibility for food assistance and health care access.

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Oh, you listed them in an oblique fashion

Budgets are moral documents. Jefferies obviously doesn't know what the word "moral" means. A budget is a budget. Any attempt to attach morality to one is just foisting your opinion on it.

What deals were cut? Okay, how is that different from every government budget in history?

You are the swamp. He should have said "WE are the swamp." Jefferies is as guilty of being part of the swamp as anyone in Dirty City.

Project 2026. That lame assed attempt to copy Project 2025 in theory but not in practice. Have you read that piece of dreck? I have.
 
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