Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) issued a fiery rebuke on the House floor on Wednesday night as she slammed GOP attempts to push through President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” that she warned will strip health care coverage from 13.7 million Americans.
“Republicans are going to try to tell you every distraction in the book from that essential number,” she warned during an at-times heated debate, saying the legislation had only been put together “in a matter of hours on the back of a napkin.”
“For my Republican colleagues who are sure what is in and not in this bill, in this process that has been this rushed, when you wake up this morning, you will realize that you voted to defund Planned Parenthood and to take away health care from 13.7 million Americans,” she said.
The Democratic lawmaker ― one of many to slam the bill during a House debate ― also warned of how the result will play out in the real world.
“When this country wakes up in the morning, there will be consequences to pay for this,” she said.
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