The Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, is making a final marathon against the main tax cut by President Donald Trump.
Jeffries turned to the camera floor around 5 in the morning on Thursday and has now been talking for more than seven hours, delaying a final vote in the Chamber on the Internal Policy Law project in the heart of the Trump’s second mandate agenda.
Jeffries has folder batteries next to him on the podium while separating the bill and some of the Republicans who voted for it.
“I have given me 15 minutes each on an invoice of magnitude as significant as it is related to the health, security and well -being of the American people and, because this debate was so limited, I feel the obligation, Mr. Speaker, to stand in this house and take my sweet time to tell the stories and that is exactly what I intend to do,” Jeffries said.
The “Magic Minute” speech is a procedure that gives members of the leadership of the House of Representatives unlimited time to speak after the debate on a bill has concluded. For the context, the then minority leader of the house, Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, spoke for more than eight hours in 2021 when the Chamber approved the Better Botter Back law of the construction of President Joe Biden.
The minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, is applauded while talking on the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington, on July 3, 2025.
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Jeffries has focused much of his speech on the projected impact of the bill in Medicaid, the federal program that mainly serves older people and people with disabilities, sharing personal stories of people who, according to people, will fight as a result of the Megabill.
“People will die. Tens of thousands, maybe year after year, as a result of the Republican assault on the medical care of the American people,” Jeffries said. “I am sad. I never thought I would be on the floor of the house saying that this is a crime scene.”
According to the non -partisan Congress Budget office, Medicaid cuts and changes approved by the Senate could cause 11.8 million Americans to lose their health insurance during the next decade.
Jeffries is exciting the “Health Assault” of Megabill backed by Trump.
“Each Democrat of the House of Representatives is fighting hard to protect his doctor,” Jeffries said. “We value you and we are working hard to defend you.”
Republicans have defended changes as reforms for the law programs they affirm are plagued with “waste, fraud and abuse.” The Trump administration has also retreated the non -partisan budget office and its analysis, claiming a bias.
Jeffries did not stop in medical care and criticizes other parts of the bill, including its impact on the supplementary nutritional assistance program (SNAP) and its immigration provisions.
“You will see, the budgets are moral documents. And in our opinion, Mr. President, the budgets must be designed to raise people,” he said. “This reckless republican budget that we are currently debating on the floor of the House of Representatives knocks down people.”
“This reckless republican budget is an immoral document,” Jeffries continued. “And everyone should not vote against him due to how children, older adults and everyday Americans, and people with disabilities.
These comments promoted the Democrats from the House of Representatives who gathered near Jeffries to applaud.
