ICYMI: Rep. Omar Fights Back Against Republican Budget Plan During Debate

WASHINGTON– Today, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) spoke on the House Floor during debate to vocalize her opposition to the Republican budget plan. She sits on the House Budget Committee and offered four amendments this week to alter the legislative text. 

The full video can be found here. 

Full transcript below:

“I rise in strong opposition to this Republican budget resolution. Because it isn’t a budget – it’s a blueprint for American decline.

Let’s be clear: They want to exploit your labor, take your tax dollars, and gut your earned benefits — all to bankroll tax cuts for their wealthy friends and donors. They want to increase your healthcare costs —while Elon Musk and his friends hoard even more wealth.

And they have the audacity to call it ‘fiscal responsibility.’

 This proposal will only deepen the constitutional crisis we are already in: A President trying to rule like a dictator; An unelected billionaire using hate and fear to expand his control over our country; And Congressional Republicans pretending this chaos is normal, even as their own constituents call them out for their cowardice.

Our government is being hollowed out. Our institutions are falling apart. And today, House Republicans are slashing programs that people rely on to enact massive tax giveaways to the rich.

So, I ask my Republican colleagues: Who will you serve?The people who sent you here? Or the billionaires trying to buy our democracy?

I yield back.”

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