Ranking Member Thompson Statement on Republicans Jamming Their GOP Tax Scam Through the House
You can’t shovel shit and call it sugar
(WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on House Republicans maliciously jamming through their “One Big Ugly Bill” in the dead of night:
“This horrific bill is one of the most shameful grifts I have ever seen played on the American public. It recklessly throws an enormous – and unnecessary – amount of taxpayer money at the border to buy the votes of Republicans so each one of them can get on board with tax cuts for billionaires while taking away healthcare for millions of Americans. Worst yet, minutes before we voted on the bill, Republicans snuck in a 12-billion-dollar giveaway to Texas Governor Abbott.
“To be clear, this bill steals money from the American taxpayer and gives it to the Trump administration to decimate DHS and attack the Constitution. Every day, Trump and his minions are unconstitutionally dismantling DHS and making us less safe in the process. They are firing hundreds of civil servants, freezing security grants, denying due process whenever they can, deporting U.S. citizen kids with cancer, and failing to respond to natural disasters across the country. And when they push their extremist agenda on the American people in the name of border security, they are ignoring real threats like domestic terrorism - one of the biggest threats the country faces and one this bill doesn’t mention or spend a dime on.
“It is disgraceful what Republicans have done today. But they made a deal with the devil, and the devil always collects. I can only hope that the American people woke up today and saw what Republicans snuck into this cruel bill. The Senate must now stop it or, sadly, the American people are sure to suffer.”
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