    [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 38 (Wednesday, February 26, 2025)]
    [House]
    [Page H845]
    From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                        HAMAS DOES NOT DESIRE TO COEXIST

      (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for
    1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
      Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, in the budget resolution document there is
    no mention of Medicaid or any cuts to it or Social Security or
    Medicare, any of them. That is a lie that continues to be told on this
    floor and in the media. People shouldn't buy into it and then swamp
    their Member of Congress as a result of these lies and have these
    aggressive townhalls.
      Constituents are being lied to when they say this stuff. We are going
    to contemplate this budget resolution in the budget reconciliation
    process, and that will be in front of the people so they can see.
      I did want to talk about the situation in Israel a little bit and
    Hamas and the way they have so brutally murdered and abused people
    there.
      It has been 500 days. It is time that we recognize Hamas for what
    they are because they are not wearing any ``Coexist'' stickers on
    themselves or the bumpers of their cars. They do not want to get along
    with Israel.
      The goal in much of that world is to destroy Israel. This is what we
    are dealing with. We need to remember that as negotiations go forward
    and as we get the hostages back.

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