June 30th, 2025.

This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress,

said Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat of Connecticut.

We're debating a bill that's going to cut health care for 16 million people.

It's going to give a tax break to massively wealthy people who don't

need any more money. There are going to be kids who go hungry because of this bill. This is the

biggest reduction in nutrition benefits for kids in the history of the country. Murphy continued,

we're obviously going to continue to offer these amendments to try to make it better.

So far, not a single one of our amendments has passed, but we'll be here all day, probably all night,

giving Republicans the chance over and over and over again to slim down the tax cuts for the corporations, or to make

life a little bit less miserable for hungry kids, or maybe don't throw as many people off

of health care, maybe don't close so many rural hospitals. It's going to be a long day and a long

night. This bill is a farce, said Senator Angus King,

and independent of Maine. Imagine a bunch of guys sitting around a table saying,

I've got a great idea. Let's give $32,000 worth of tax breaks to a millionaire, and we'll pay

for it by taking health insurance away from lower income and

middle income people. And to top it off, how about we cut food stamps? We cut SNAP. We cut food aid to

people. I've been in this business of public policy now for 20 years. Eight years is governor,

12 years in the United States Senate. I have never seen a bill this bad.

I have never seen a bill that is this irresponsible, regressive, and downright cruel.

When I worked here in the 70s, King said, I had insurance as a junior staff member in this body 50 years ago.

Because I had that insurance that covered a free checkup, I went in and had my first physical in eight years,

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