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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence: House Republican says we're not 'little b----es.’ Dem calls out GOP's Trump bill mistake.

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

Policy, Msnbc, Politics, President, Washington, Congress, Government, Senate, News

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: House Republicans scramble to advance Donald Trump’s budget bill. And researchers say USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years. Rep. Brendan Boyle, Norm Ornstein, Rep. Jamie Raskin, and Dr. Atul Gawande join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

It has a mistake in it. Those were the words spoken on the floor of the House of Representatives

0:06.9

today at 1110 a.m. that shocked every Republican member of the House representatives. They all know

0:14.4

that the real leading expert on House rules is Democrat Jim McGovern, the Democratic leader of the House Rules

0:23.3

Committee. They know that the Republican chair of the House Rules Committee, Virginia Fox,

0:29.4

is completely and permanently incompetent, always has been, always will be, as is her staff.

0:34.3

And so the way in over his head,

0:38.1

Republican Speaker of the House,

0:39.2

Mike Johnson learned from Democrat Jim McGovern

0:42.5

on the floor today, 1110 a.m.,

0:46.8

that what Speaker Johnson brought to the floor of the House

0:51.8

to vote on had a mistake in it. Unlike the Senate,

0:57.3

the House of Representatives creates a, they have a vote that creates a rule for each piece

1:04.7

of legislation that passes through the House of Representatives. And it's a different rule for each

1:08.6

one. It has very, They all have very similar elements.

1:11.7

In the Senate, there are the standing rules of the Senate. They're written down. And they don't

1:15.9

change. But the House Rules Committee, controlled by the party in power, literally writes a rule

1:23.4

that is the guideline for how that particular bill will be handled on the floor of the House

1:27.7

Representatives. And that rule always says, for example, that there will be no amendments

1:32.3

allowed on the House floor. That's why you only see amendments on the Senate floor, never on

1:37.2

the House floor. But the incompetent Republicans did such a bad job of writing that very simple one-paragraph rule.

1:46.0

The Jim McGovern stopped everything in the House of Representatives today by announcing to the House.

1:53.0

It has a mistake in it.

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