congressional_record: CREC-2025-05-23-pt1-PgE471-2
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| CREC-2025-05-23-pt1-PgE471-2 | 2025-05-23 | 119 | 1 | ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT | HOUSE | EXTENSIONS | ALLOTHER | E471 | E471 | [{"name": "Bennie G. Thompson", "role": "speaking"}] | [{"congress": "119", "type": "HR", "number": "1"}] | 171 Cong. Rec. E471 | Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 88 (Friday, May 23, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 88 (Friday, May 23, 2025)] [Extensions of Remarks] [Page E471] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT ______ speech of HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON of mississippi in the house of representatives Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, we are here in the dark of night because President Trump has one goal: to pass massive tax cuts for billionaires by cruelly stealing healthcare away from millions of Americans. H.R. 1, the ``One Big Ugly Bill,'' isn't about securing the border, and it never has been. The bill recklessly throws an enormous amount of taxpayer money at the border to buy the votes of Republicans who are reluctant to support the GOP tax scam and devastating Medicaid cuts. Just tonight, Republicans snuck into the bill a $12 billion ``Lonestar Kickback'' to give Texas Governor Greg Abbott a handout for his unconstitutional border security operations. The ``One Big Ugly Bill'' gives the Trump administration billions to ramp up mass detentions and deportations, including American children with cancer, and deny due process to whomever they can, including those in the country legally. The ``One Big Ugly Bill'' spends $46.5 billion on Trump's failed border wall--which Trump originally said Mexico would pay for. That amount is nearly four times what Trump originally promised the wall would cost, and it is ten times what the bill spends on Customs and Border Protection personnel. The ``One Big Ugly Bill'' allows the Homeland Security Department to create a slush fund that will enable the worst impulses of the Trump administration, like private jets for the Secretary and securing the President's many multi-million-dollar golfing vacations at his branded properties. Mr. Speaker. I urge all my colleagues to reject the ``One Big Ugly Bill.'' ____________________ |