Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) as soon as criticized former President Joe Biden’s administration for being “asleep on the wheel,” however was caught fairly actually napping himself on Wednesday throughout a Home guidelines committee listening to on President Donald Trump’s “massive, lovely invoice.”
The laws may kick hundreds of thousands of individuals off of Medicaid and curb eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps round 42 million People purchase meals every month, whereas extending the tax cuts Trump signed into law in 2017.
Republicans had set the meeting for 1 a.m., which seemed to be previous Norman’s bedtime.
“@RepRalphNorman is ripping well being care away from 13 million People not thrilling sufficient to remain awake?” Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) wrote on X, previously Twitter, with an accompanying video displaying Norman dozing off throughout the listening to.
Fernández posted the footage at 2:16 a.m., suggesting Norman solely made it by way of a bit over an hour earlier than falling asleep. It was the second time in per week that a Republican member of Congress dozed off throughout a listening to associated to Trump’s consequential invoice.
“HE DOESN’T CARE,” wrote one user on X in response to the footage, with another person commenting: “If solely MAGA cared as a lot in regards to the center class as they do billionaires, the world could be a greater place.”
The controversial laws would supply a whole lot of billions of {dollars} for Trump’s mass deportation initiative and a newly introduced “Golden Dome” missile protection system — which the president himself admitted Tuesday the U.S. navy hadn’t even requested for.
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Republicans narrowly voted Sunday to advance the package deal, formally referred to as the One Massive Stunning Invoice Act, with varied holdouts demanding even faster cuts to Medicaid and inexperienced power applications handed throughout Biden’s administration than it requires.
Norman himself shared some gripes Friday with the invoice and complained in a statement that the well being care portion “delays working necessities for able-bodied adults” till 2029 and doesn’t “fight Obamacare’s unfair Medicaid growth” as a lot as he’d like.
As for a provision aiming to make Trump’s tax cuts everlasting, nonetheless, he wrote merely: “That’s INCREDIBLE!!” The congressman is presently being wildly defended by pro-Trump users on social media who argue the invoice will only affect illegal immigrants.
