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Featuring: Gwen Moore, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 4

US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025

Published May 16, 2025 | Video Starts at 13:51

We have never seen anything like this among our Republican colleagues who are being threatened, you know, with primaries. Elon Musk has said that he will finance primaries against any Republicans that defies Donald Trump. And we literally have Republicans behind closed doors. So many of them are saying that they don't want to see these cuts. They have been pressured in particular by their constituents, particularly on Medicaid. (13:51–14:01)

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Asserts that Elon Musk has pledged to finance primary challenges against Republicans who defy Donald Trump.

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“Our instructions [from the Ways and Means Committee] was to increase the deficit by $4.5 trillion in order to pass these tax cuts for the…”
US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025 | Uploaded May 16, 2025 | 01:06-01:20
“84% of these so called small businesses that receive this benefit have absolutely no employees.”
US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025 | Uploaded May 16, 2025 | 02:01-02:10
“We spend a half trillion dollars a year on uncompensated care.”
US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025 | Uploaded May 16, 2025 | 06:22-06:28
“60 times the Republicans have tried to undermine and eliminate the Affordable Care Act.”
US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025 | Uploaded May 16, 2025 | 07:26-07:33
“The Energy and Commerce Committee were given instructions to cut Medicaid and they cut it for over $700 billion.”
US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025 | Uploaded May 16, 2025 | 10:21-10:30
“This is a program that supposedly is one of the most expensive provisions in the bill, costing maybe 800, upwards of $800 billion.”
US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025 | Uploaded May 16, 2025 | 01:30-01:41
“If you got a say, you got a small business that makes $200,000 a year, they'd only get about six grand in cuts.”
US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025 | Uploaded May 16, 2025 | 02:25-02:36
“Someone like Dick Eli, no employees, perhaps gets $115 million so that most of the benefit goes to the 1%.”
US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025 | Uploaded May 16, 2025 | 02:37-02:50
“They [Republicans] have been pressured in particular by their constituents, particularly on Medicaid.”
US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025 | Uploaded May 16, 2025 | 02:54-14:16
“They temporarily raise some of the benefits for people in the lower quintiles and of course, just to get them through the 2026 election…”
US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025 | Uploaded May 16, 2025 | 03:24-03:40
“In the case of Medicaid, this they have actually scored throwing people off.”
US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025 | Uploaded May 16, 2025 | 05:02-05:09
“We're thinking that there are probably about 14 million people at a minimum that are going to lose benefits because of the changes that…”
US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025 | Uploaded May 16, 2025 | 08:22-08:33
“There are probably 18,000 veterans that are going to be harmed by cuts in SNAP.”
US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025 | Uploaded May 16, 2025 | 10:42-10:49
“Our governor has calculated that the state would find itself having to come up with $200 million just in Wisconsin to fill the gap [due to…”
US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025 | Uploaded May 16, 2025 | 11:35-11:46
“They get 53 year old folks, 54 year old folks again, who will only be eligible for SNAP for three months, every three years.”
US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025 | Uploaded May 16, 2025 | 11:48-12:00
“Republicans behind closed doors... don't want to see these cuts [to Medicaid].”
US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025 | Uploaded May 16, 2025 | 14:02-14:02
“We have people in wheelchairs outside of the Energy and Commerce Committee... being arrested... to stop these cuts.”
US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025 | Uploaded May 16, 2025 | 14:15-14:31
“Our guess is, is that it'll probably pass out of the Budget committee today.”
US Rep. Gwen Moore on the Republican budget package for 2025 | Uploaded May 16, 2025 | 14:40-14:45