NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — U.S. Congressmen including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Louisiana representative Troy Carter took the stage, highlighting the harm they believe may come from President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
Carter spoke first, calling the new law a tax break for billionaires.
“It is in fact reverse Robinhood. It’s stealing from the poor and giving to the rich,” Carter said.
He says due to this new law, rural hospitals across the country, including 33 in Louisiana, are threatened to close and millions will lose healthcare coverage.
Both he and Jeffries believe that now thousands of lives are at risk.
“We believe in America that healthcare is not simply something that should be available to the privileged few. It is a right that should be available to every single American,” Jeffries said.
When it comes to Medicaid work requirements for able-bodied people, Carter says he supports them, but says the concern is not as prevalent as republicans have made it seem.
“It’s a misnomer that able-bodied people aren’t already working. Many of the people are in fact working. This notion that there’s millions of people who can work that aren’t working, I don’t think that number is real; and no study I’ve ever read supports it,” Carter said.
When asked if democrats can reverse the doings of the bill, those on the panel say “yes”, and that the answer to do so is simple: by voting.
“If the democrats were in control and this man was the speaker of the house, we’d be speaking about something else today. We wouldn’t be speaking about this. We’d be speaking about progress for the American people,” Carter said.
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