mm mischaracterized it incorrectly. this is a bill that helps working americans, or one that helps billionaires? again, let me just pause on the irony that it wasn't too long ago they were saying millionaires, until they realized that they became millionaires. again, different topic. if you take out a car loan for an american-made automobile, and you can deduct that interest, the bill in the text specifies that you cannot make more than $100,000 per year. i think by definition, somebody who makes less than $100,000 a year is not a billionaire. so indisputable that that part of the bill does not help billionaires. it helps working americans. notice that was not addressed. second, no tax on overtime. i don't think there's a lot of

billionaires that punch a clock. that is clearly something that helps working families. no income tax on tips. once again, i don't see a lot of billionaires serving us at restaurants, taking care of us at nail salons or barber shops. it is clearly something that helps working americans. as i predicted, they did not address that particular provision. no tax on social security. and that is capped at $150,000 in income. again, by definition not a billionaire. a $5,000 tax increase that is prevented. that does not help billionaires. it helps working families that don't want their taxes going up. they didn't address that. now, when ten million illegals invade this country and drive down our wages, drive up our housing costs, do you think jeff bezos or mark zuckerberg or elon musk are worried about the price

of housing? jeff bezos just had a $55 million wedding in italy. i don't think he's worried about his housing costs going up. i don't think there's a lot of criminalle aliens -- criminal aliens going to beverly hills or palo alto or martha's vineyard to buy homes. they're going to springfield, ohio, where the average rent from a thousand dollars to two, three times that, with a surge of 18,000 aliens in a city of 50,000 people. insurance prices went up with a massive amount of car accidents and crashes. that's real world. that happens, and that affects working families this bill does, it deports them. now, what isn't said by my democrat colleagues is that have a lot of their friends that love criminal alien labor. they can't complain. they get paid a lot less money. that doesn't benefit working families. working families don't have five

gardeners and three nannies at their house in martha's vineyard. but democratic colleagues' friends sure do. spend a summer in martha's vineyard. you'll see what i mean. decadence unlike something you've never seen in your life. 30, $40 million homes, private jets. they sip cappuccinos in the morning talking about climate change. they heat and cool their homes 365 days a year. that's who funds the democrat party today. quite sad, honestly. it used to be the party of working class and that championed this bill. a $2,200 child tax credit. do you think billionaires think about $2,200 as something that motivates them? do you think billionaires rush out, get married and have kids because they get a $2,200 tax credit or it allows them to buy groceries? the democrat leader spoke about snap benefits and taking food away from children. those are the hyperbolic statements that i think all of us here in the united states

senate should be above that. nobody's suggesting we take food literally out of the hands of children. but what their policies did do over the last four years, inadvertently maybe, i'll give them credit, raised grocery prices to the point where working americans had to make a decision at the cash register, whether to buy something or not. i saw it with my own eyes, i went into giant eagle in west lake, ohio, i would see people buying groceries, they would have to make a decision, mash the bigger serial box they can't do it, they have to go to generics instead of the kellogg's because their grocery bill was too high. imagine what that feels like. you're a working american, worked your whole life, you have to say to your children, i can't afford to get your cereal today or that extra snack you wanted. they drove up the price of inflation. the one big, beautiful bill will lower it. they didn't talk about that.

they didn't talk about the thousand dollars fund that goes for american citizens. do you think billionaires care whether a thousand dollars goes into a fund that can be maybe $100,000, $00,000, when those kids -- $100,000, $200,000 when they turn 22 years old? they don't address that. be honest about your objection to the bill and their objection is pretty straightforward. they don't want president trump to get a win. do you think that billionaires worry about their health care premiums? working families do. what are we doing? we're preserving these health care programs for the people who need them. we're strengthening medicaid. what they've allowed to happen is that states have been gaming the federal government, drawing down funds to pay for other projects and other benefits, and the people who are going to be eliminated from the medicaid

system is illegal migrants. we shall see whether in this bill they object to that provision, because in our current draft, they don't refer to this, it says you cannot receive any welfare programs unless you're an american citizen. they'll have the opportunity to object and remove that from the bill. that doesn't help billionaires, but it does crush working families. they didn't talk about the dangers all over the world, congo and rwanda just signed a peace deal in the white house yesterday. pakistan and india averted a massive war. we now have a ceasefire between iran and israel. in six months president trump brought peace and prosperity around the world. our military was depleted because they insisted on funding a proxy war with russia. we're fixing that they didn't talk about the investment in the coast guard. they leave that out, because they want you to think this bill

is about billionaires. it certainly is not. they didn't talk about the air traffic control system. my colleague has been here almost as long as i've been al alive. he had the opportunity when he controlled this chamber, controlled the house, controlled the presidency, to fund a modernization of our air traffic control system. he didn't do it. he isn't talking about that. he talked about the green new deal, the green new scam. let me walk you through, if you're not familiar with this, let's say that you want to build a solar project, for example, london, ohio. you can go out and buy acres of land, way more than market value. why? because the federal government will pay you 30% of what you think the project is worth. let me repeat that. say a project costs $10 million to build. the federal government will pay you 30% of what you think it's worth. that's in the inflation

reduction act. it's what they call fair market value. let's say you find a friendly appraiser, that says, hey, this project is worth $30 million. the federal government will write you a check for 9 million of the 10 million it costs to build that project. if you're really savvy, you go to a bank, say, hey, look, i got this project, worth all this money, can you gives me a loan, maybe half, $5 million? before it produces one elect ron ron -- one electron, you've put $4 million in your pocket. you made out like a bandity. this is why the inflation reduction act was supposed to cost a trillion dollars. it's costing exponentially more. these are scams on the american people. in ohio, we have thousands of years of natural gas. thousands of years. the cleanest energy, most abundant and reliable energy. what did the democrats in the

previous administration do? completely kneecapped it. banned liquid gas exports, made it virtually impossible to explore for new natural gas, removed permits from federal lands, canceled the keystone pipeline who did that affect? do you think that that billionaire buddy of one of my colleagues, who has a compound on martha's vineyard cares if his energy price went up 30%? by the way, it doesn't even pay the bill. he has somebody he knows who has somebody beneath him, somebody beneath them that pays the bills. he has no idea. if his energy price went up 30%, it wouldn't affect their life. i was with somebody in martha's vineyard a couple, three years ago, and they gave a quote that i'll never forget. i want to put this into the record. a quote from one of my democrat colleagues. in the spirit of deck or up, i will not -- decorum, i will not mention their name, in froment of a $35 million home, that most

of the guests flew there on private jets, that had a several boats anchored, by the way, gigantic outboard engines that use probably 30 gallons of gas every five minutes, said the following quote, are you you ready, mr. president? if you want to live like a republican, vote for a democrat. think about how callous that is. he said the quiet part out loud. i'm proud you and i are part of a new republican party. we represent a new vision of the republican party. it's about helping working americans actually live a better life. that's why i'm here. i know that's why you're here. and i know that's why you and i are so proud of this bill. again, i'll close with this. i know there's lots of noise out there right now all over this building. we have an opportunity for the first time, first time in american history say that in this chamber, in this congress

with this president, we're going to make the lives of working americans better the way i just outlined. and while my colleagues, i don't expect them -- to quite honestly, it would be odd for them to agree with us on everything. just don't lie. don't come out on the floor and say this is a bill for billionaires. this is a bill for working americans. and i would challenge any of my colleagues that are going to speak that when they make those statements, reference the page number and the exact line in the bill that helps billionaires. just point that out. and by the way, on these solar scams, we're not banning solar panels. we're not banning windmills. what we're staying we're -- we're saying we're not going to make you filthy rich. but if you want to building one of these in ohio, you can do it but not with massive subsidies from the government. mr. president, again i'll urge

all of my colleagues, let's unite as a party. let's show the american people that republicans have the ability to govern, that we can come together to pass a transformative and historical bill. with that i yield. thank you, mr. president.

the presiding officer: the senator from the great state of minnesota. ms. klobuchar: mr. president, are we in a quorum? the presiding officer: no, we are not. ms. klobuchar: mr. president, i

rise today to speak in strong opposition to the recently revealed senate congressional budget bill. i will note that this is a 940-page bill that was just put out there at midnight. for me that was a moment because one, i realized that nothing has changed in terms of the proposal. it's actually added to the debt. and, two, from about $3.4 trillion to one analysis says $4 trillion and it's actually add more medicaid cuts, another $100 billion up to $900 billion in medicaid cuts. those are the top lines. i don't think anyone has had time to look at every single detail of that bill. but for me it meant something else. that meant that i knew that i was going to stay here along with my colleague, senator smith, and -- because we have a job to do that is really important on this budget. but it was hard to not go home

and grieve for one of my very good and beloved friends, melissa hortman and her husband mark whose funeral was held today in our state. and i would have been there in person because of the gravity of the legislation, we are considering today, but i was able to watch it online. one of the things that i most remember and will always remember from that funeral in addition to the beauty of it, in addition to the trees and the bushes that awaited the guests outside because melissa loved the beauty of the world and cared a lot about the world around here, but it was the words of our archbishop habdah. it was a very religious service, full mass. my husband got to take part. he said this at the close of the ceremony, he quoted the new pope, pope leo who recently said

that politics is one of the greatest forms of charity. melissa always believed that. she believed that in how she lived her life and got things done for people, whether it was school lunches or better paid family leave or more fairness for people in our state. she believed that to her core. and her husband did, too. when their kids wrote just a few days after their parents were murdered by a madman, their two kids in their 20's. one is going to get married in december. his fiance was there. melissa was planning the wedding. they asked people to make the word just a little bit better. they said plan a -- plant a tree, pet a dog. hopefully a golden retriever because they loved dogs so much. do something small or big. so i figure that's what we're going to be doing the next few days. and this is big but it's something that's going to make a difference to people in this country if we don't do something

about this bill right now. what does this bill do? it kicks 16 million people off their health care. 16 million people off their health care in order to finance tax cuts for the wealthiest, in order to give multimillionaires a $400,000 tax cut. that doesn't make the world a better place. adding $4 trillion in debt, a trillion of it is interest which is going to make mortgage rates go up. it's going to make harder for young people to be able to maybe get their first house or pay their rent. it's putting it on their backs. it's putting it on their shoulders. that's why i don't see this as a big, beautiful bill. i see this as a big, beautiful betrayal of the hardworking people of this country. why are colleagues scrambling to get this done in two days just because the president sets a

deadline and said jump and they say how high? why are they always rubber stamping things that they don't actually believe in? we still know this newest draft, the 940 pages that no one's really read, we know that the bill still rips away health care for millions of americans and closes hundreds of rural hospitals. it still shifts costs to states and threatens food assistance for families across the country. it still adds trillions of dollars to the federal debt. people in this country, the more they hear about this, the more they don't like it. a fox news poll recently 60% of the people don't like it. 2-1 people say this isn't going to help me. it's going to help wealthy people. people on medicaid, they don't want to lose access to health care. one out of two people in as

assisted living are actually on medicaid. you know, when my dad was in assisted living, he had some savings. he was married three times so a lot of that money had gone away. better to talk about another time. but i knew the exact day that that savings was going to run out. i knew the exact day because i was going to move him over to a catholic charities place that actually took medicaid because that was the day his medicaid would kick in. it gave me some solace even though he was in a place that didn't take medicaid, that i had a plan for him. i had a place for him to go. he worked hard his whole life. grew up in a hard scrabble mining. he deserved to have the end of his life be a life of dignity. this is not what the american people voted for. when i get out to rural minnesota, i visit all of 87 counties every single year. i've done 49 so far. so i've been in a lot of our rural counties in the last six

months. they are scared to death of what this is going to do to rural hospitals. because the debt is so huge in this bill, it actually triggers some rules on medicare that will cut $500 billion in medicare. in addition to the medicaid cuts already laid out which are now up to $900 billion. that's devastating for rural hospitals. it's projected 300 rural hospitals will close. this is the lifeline, the lifeline for people in rural america. when they get something, a very, very serious illness, yes, they'll go to another hospital maybe in a bigger area, bigger town, metro area. but when they need emergency care, unless they're going to get a helicopter coming in to get them or they break a leg and there's a lot of people working outside in rural areas, farming, logging, you name it, they need to have a local hospital there. they need to have local doctors

there. there is no avoiding the facts. 16 million people cut off. health care. closing over 300 rural hospitals and 500 nursing homes across the country. republicans want to say the updated text will help rural providers with additional funding but the bill is now making over $900 billion in cuts instead of the $800 billion when it comes to health care. i've heard from a working mom of two whose parents rely on medicaid for health care. she told me she doesn't think it's fair to shift the cost of care to families like her to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. duh. she said we need to draw the line and say this is enough. i have heard from so many people across my state about the food assistance cuts. four million people off of food

assistance. you know what? the vast majority of people on food assistance? veterans, seniors, people with little kids, old people. those are the people on food assistance. grocery stores in rural areas, you may have one grocery store in a town, more likely in the county, more likely in four counties. they are operating already, many of them are independent groceries on thin chains. you make these kind of thin margins, you make these kinds of cuts, you make these kinds of cuts to snap, the results are going to be that you're going to lose these grocery stores. as ranking member of the senate ag committee, i have heard over and over again from farmers who already are facing headwinds. the trump tariffs. they don't have markets now that they had markets before. the cuts to the international food assistance that we were always so proud of in this

country, that was -- other organizations buying american farmers' food. the input costs, what's happening with avian flu and other things. and now you add this? this is food that's produced by american farmers when you cut $200 billion as the senate bill does from the snap program. the nonpartisan congressional budget office has confirmed that the senate bill would add -- end snap for 2.9 million americans including over a million -- including over nearly a million seniors in 270 -- and 270,000 veterans. the bill passed by the house would add $3.when trillion as i -- $3.4 trillion as i noted to the national debt and the senate bill is now up to $4 trillion. and it uses this funky budgeting which -- let me just explain it in an easy way. it's called baseline budgeting. everyone that looks at this from the outside says this is a $4

trillion debt adder. but they use something where they say okay, let's say -- "the washington post" did this day. you go to a movie and you buy a movie ticket. let's say it's ten bucks. then you get some pop and you do that one week. because you want to see that f-1 movie, the new movie. two weeks later you go and you want to see it again but you get some popcorn for $5. small popcorn for $5. okay. instead of saying you're paying your ten bucks for the picture and five bucks for -- the ticket and five bucks for the popcorn, oh, it's only five bucks because that's how much it went up the last few weeks. that's the funky budgeting. that's the faux budgeting that's going on on the other side. that is what it costs. this is not what americans voted for. the president promised to lower costs and stand up for the middle class. this bill does the opposite. it takes from working people to

pad the pockets of the wealthy. and that is why this bill is so unpopular. whether it is a mom from louisiana whose son has down's syndrome and counts on medicaid or a bus driver from kansas like the one i met who uses snap to feed her kids, the american people are speaking out against this bill. we will have the weekend to fight this bill, and i think people in the middle of the summer, maybe they're not tuned in, but they better tune in because we should be protecting health care, not taking it away, defending food assistance, not raising grocery costs. we should not be giving tax breaks to the wealthy. we should be helping out the middle class and hardworking americans. that's what our job should be. it's not what this bill is. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor.

mr. thune: mr. president.

the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. thune: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, we have before us today a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver legislation to create a safer, stronger,and more prosperous america. with one bill we can deliver on a number of priorities. tax relief for hardworking americans, economic growth, a stronger national defense, a more secure border, a more reliable energy supply. and reductions in waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal government. mr. president, we seldom have an opportunity to take the kind of action that we're taking -- that we're planning to take on just one of these priorities, let alone all of them. when was the last time we considered legislation like this to give $150 billion boost to our defense spending? any serious declines in our military readiness -- i should say after serious declines in our military readiness, we are

on the verge of priorities. shipbuilding, missile defense, defense manufacturing capacity, critical munitions, drones and counterdrone technology, and expanded air force fighting fleet, nuclear modernization, u.s. infrastructure in the pacific, and more. while it's no substitute for robust yearly defense funding, our bill represents a real chance to start to turn our readiness deficiencies around. there is no time, mr. president, in which we can afford to let our military readiness slide. but, above all, at this time to increase -- at this time of increased global instability, it is critical we have the resources our military needs to deter other enemy and defend our country. so it represents an economic opportunity and that's just one section of the bill. we're also looking at historic

investment in border security. $160 billion -- yeah, that's right. $160 to undo the damage done by the biden border crisis and secure our border for the long term. more border patrol agents. more immigration and customs enforcement agents. funding to complete the border wall and implement critical border technology. mr. president, it's all there. we have the opportunity to take the games the trump administration has made -- the gains the trump administration has canadian in securing -- has made in securing our border and make that progress permanent. like the defense section, the border security provisions of this bill would be an impressive and historic piece of legislation all on their own. but, again, they're just one section. we're also looking at the chance to increase our energy independence, making you are safer and more prosperous. and we're looking at an exceedingly rare opportunity to

root out waste, fraud, and abuse including on entitlements. once again, impressive opportunities all on their own. but even more incredible, when you consider that we're looking at the prospect of being able to do all of these things in one bill, and then of course, mr. president, there is the ram relief. talk about a section of the bill that would be an achievement all on its own. we're looking at the opportunity to make the 2017 tax relief permanent. that means permanently extending the lower tax rates. permanently extending the increased standard deduction, and not only permanently extending the enhanced child tax credit but enhancing it even further to $2,200 per child and ink willing it to inflation so it's value will never go down. but not just that a there's

more. we're eliminating taxes on tips for millions of tipped workers. we're eliminating taxes on overtomb for millions of hourly workers. we're putting in place an auto loan interest deductible when but buy a new car manufactured here in the united states. and we're increasing the standard deduction for millions of low- and middle-income seniors making their retirement a little easier and more prosperous. we're also implementing a program to create savings accounts for newborns with an initial deposit of $1,000 to help parents save and investment for their children's future needs. we're also looking at the chance to grow our economy by making the rest of the tax cuts and business relief permanent. that means lower rates for small- and medium-sized businesses. the job-creating small-business small business deduction and investing.

and we're adding to the 2017 tax relief with more pro-growth provisions like a provision to boost domestic manufacturing by implementing full expensing for new factories and factory improvements. thanks to the pro-growth provisions in our legislation, we can expect to see gdp as much as 4. 9% higher as a result of our bill. that, of course, mr. president, means more jobs and opportunities and better wanings for hardworking americans p republicans made some promises to the american people, last november. we promised to grow our economy, to extend the 2017 tax relief and prevent a $4 trillion tax hike on the american people. to secure our border and enhance the safety of our communities. to unleash american energy. we made those promises and the american people elected us to office. now they expect us to deliver.

the opportunity is before us to deliver on our promises and make america safer, stronger, and more prosperous. 53 members will never agree on every detail of legislation. let's face it. republicans are united in our commitment to what we're doing in this bill -- securing our border, strengthening our national defense, growing our economy, unleashing american energy, cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, and preventing tax hikes on hardworking americans. mr. president, it's time to get this legislation across the finish line. mr. president, i yield the floor. i suggest the absence of a quorum. whoops, so. -- sorry. mr. presidentmarks i understand that there is a bill at the desk due for a second reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the fight for the

second time. the clerk: h.r. 1, an act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title 2 of h. con. res. 14. mr. thune: in order place the bill on calendar under provisions of rule are 14, i would object to further proceeding. the presiding officer: objection having been heard you the bill will be placed on the calendar. mr. thune: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the clerk: ms. alsobrooks.

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