Brendan Boyle

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, here we are again--Yogi Berra once said that it is deja vu all over again--debating this bill in the middle of the night. This crowd must love prime time in Guam. This has been the worst process of the worst bill I have ever seen during my decade in Congress. This is not what our Founders intended--far from it. While the process stinks, the substance is even worse. The bill still kicks 17 million Americans off their healthcare and makes record cuts to Medicaid, record cuts to the Affordable Care Act, and record cuts to Medicare. That is not all. It kicks off 4\1/2\ million from nutrition assistance, mostly seniors and children. Why? It is to help subsidize massive tax cuts that mostly go to the top 1 percent. Of course, all of those cuts, over $1.5 trillion worth, don't come close to paying for the more than $5 trillion worth of tax cuts. Who pays the remainder? Our national credit card does. Here we are, actually voting not just for the biggest loss of healthcare in American history, but the biggest increase in our national debt in American history. Mr. Speaker, I have no idea what in the world the crowd that was holding out got for holding out. Does anyone know? It is a complete mystery to me and to the American people, but one thing is clear. There is one group making out as a result of this bill: the billionaire class. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Doggett), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee and ranking member on the Ways and Means Committee's Health Subcommittee.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from New Jersey (Mrs. Watson Coleman), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. Aguilar), the chairman of the Democratic Caucus.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone), the ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentlewoman from Vermont (Ms. Balint), a distinguished member of the House Committee on the Budget.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Rhode Island (Mr. Amo), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time remains on each side.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from California (Mr. Panetta), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Minnesota (Ms. Craig), the ranking member of the Agriculture Committee.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), the Speaker emerita of the House.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. McGarvey), my good friend.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time for the purpose of closing. This has been a very long day after many, many days that have stretched into the night to the following morning, such as this one, after a very long 6 months on this bill. What really matters in these next few moments is that the decision we have been entrusted by the American people to make will have ramifications for millions of our fellow Americans and indeed for our country for decades to come. There may not be a lot of people able to watch at 4:05 in the morning, but in just a few short hours, some of them on Medicaid will be waking up and turning on the news to find out if what we did here tonight means they are about to lose it. Some of the people who get their healthcare from the ACA exchanges will be turning on their TV to find out what we have done in these next few minutes and if they will still be able to have healthcare. The folks like my dad, who are on Medicare, who are writing in, emailing, calling us, saying don't cut Medicare, they will find out in a few moments whether or not we have pushed through the biggest cut to Medicare in American history. The kids who rely on SNAP, the nutrition assistance program, may not quite understand it, but make no mistake about it: What we are about to do in the next few minutes here will have a profound effect on their lives, not to mention the millions of Americans who may not be on Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, or the ACA, but who rely on a hospital in a rural area, who now may see that hospital close because of the cuts that are in this piece of legislation. Of course, for many years to come, we and our kids and our grandkids are going to be saddled with even more debt in order to afford tax cuts for those who need them the least. This is not just bad economics. I believe it is immoral. I would remind us that the Congressional Budget Office, just last week, found in the final analysis of this bill, when all of its component parts are summed together, that the bottom third of households would be poorer, the middle of the country would be no better off, and the biggest benefit would go to the top 1 percent of Americans. This legislation makes the poor poorer, the rich richer, and the middle class left behind. On behalf of the millions of Americans who are relying on us to hold firm on behalf of this side of the aisle, we say: Hell, no. Vote ``no'' on this bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, on June 23, 2025, due to unforeseen and severe travel delays during my trip to Washington, D.C., on Amtrak, I was unable to vote during Roll Call votes No. 172, No. 173, and No. 174 on the floor of the House of Representatives. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on Roll Call votes No. 172, No. 173, and No. 174.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, by my calculation, I have now been up 43 of the last 45 hours, and I am not quitting yet. We are not quitting yet. That is because the stakes are just too damn high. This is one of the most significant pieces of legislation we will ever vote on. This bill will bring about the greatest loss of healthcare in American history. More than 6 million Americans who are currently on the Affordable Care Act will lose their health insurance if this Republican bill becomes law. More than 7 million Americans currently on Medicaid will lose their healthcare if this Republican bill becomes law. In fact, in total, 13.7 million Americans will lose their healthcare, according to the nonpartisan CBO. That is bad enough, but then, late last night, we also got confirmation from CBO that something else is in this bill: over $500 billion worth of cuts to Medicare. All told, given the cuts to the ACA, the cuts to Medicaid, and the cuts to Medicare, it is the largest loss of healthcare in American history as a result of this bill. Not even during the Great Depression did so many people lose their healthcare as will lose it in this bill. There are even more cuts beyond that: cuts to nutrition assistance programs, cuts to Head Start, cuts to other education programs. The list goes on and on. Why? To help pay for over $5 trillion worth of tax cuts, most of which go to the top 1 percent. As draconian as these cuts are, they actually don't even come close to paying for the size of the tax cuts. How is the rest subsidized? With more debt financing, so much so that we have finally seen for the first time ever the Moody's Credit Agency on Friday downgrade the quality of the credit of the United States. Today, we saw more market churn. Markets are worried. Now, most ordinary Americans, most people I call neighbors and friends back home in Northeast Philly, a very working-class and middle-class place, most people I know aren't paying attention to credit agencies and what Wall Street is doing, but it will affect interest rates. In fact, it already is. Mortgage rates have gone back up over 7 percent and are set to rise by more. It is not just mortgage rates but auto loan rates and the rate that your credit card company charges. At a time of increasing unaffordability in America, this bill doesn't make the situation better. It makes it far, far worse. Mr. Speaker, this is not the kind of bill that is worthy of the Congress of the United States. This is class warfare. It makes the poor poorer, the rich richer, and the middle class left behind. Again, these aren't Democratic talking points. These aren't coming from progressive organizations. Last night, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released the distribution tables in terms of who will get what from this tax bill. They found the bottom 10 percent will be 4 percent poorer in household wealth under this bill, with most of the benefits going to the top 10 percent of Americans. Of that top 10 percent, of course, it is the top 1 percent that will get the most benefit of all. Robbing the poor to reward the rich is wrong, bad economics, and, as one Republican Senator called it, morally wrong. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I remind my friend that this bill will kick 404,000 people in our State of Pennsylvania off their health insurance. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Doggett), the ranking member of the Health Subcommittee on the Ways and Means Committee.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I would remind my friend from Arkansas this bill would kick 131,000 people in Arkansas off their health insurance. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from the Commonwealth of Virginia (Mr. Scott), the distinguished ranking member of the Education and Workforce Committee and also a member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I would remind my good friend that this bill will kick 159,000 people in the Commonwealth of Kentucky off their health insurance. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Vermont (Ms. Balint), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I would correct a disingenuous argument that has been offered repeatedly. Folks on the other side throughout this past week and a half, 2 weeks, and we heard it tonight, say: Well, if we don't pass this bill, most Americans will face a tax increase. That is completely false. Time and again over the past 2 weeks, both in Ways and Means and Rules, Democratic Members offered amendments to protect and extend the tax cuts for every American making under $1 billion a year. Every single Democrat voted for those amendments. Every single Republican voted against them. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I remind the gentleman that this bill will kick 404,000 people in Ohio off of their health insurance. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Jayapal), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I have good news for my friend, the chairman of the Budget Committee. We just verified with the Congressional Budget Office, and of the 13.7 million Americans who will lose their healthcare because of their bill, exactly zero are undocumented immigrants. Mr. Speaker, the complete artifice that the other side is attempting to convince you of is that almost 14 million Americans will lose their healthcare, but don't worry about it. They are all illegals. They are all people who are defrauding the system. It is completely false, and every independent source has verified that it is false. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Chu), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.

Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I remind the gentleman that this bill would kick 1.98 million people in California off their health insurance. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Tonko), a distinguished member of the Budget Committee.