[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 88 (Friday, May 23, 2025)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E471]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                       ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT

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                               speech of

                        HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON

                             of mississippi

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 21, 2025

  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, we are here in the dark of 
night because President Trump has one goal: to pass massive tax cuts 
for billionaires by cruelly stealing healthcare away from millions of 
Americans.
  H.R. 1, the ``One Big Ugly Bill,'' isn't about securing the border, 
and it never has been.
  The bill recklessly throws an enormous amount of taxpayer money at 
the border to buy the votes of Republicans who are reluctant to support 
the GOP tax scam and devastating Medicaid cuts.
  Just tonight, Republicans snuck into the bill a $12 billion 
``Lonestar Kickback'' to give Texas Governor Greg Abbott a handout for 
his unconstitutional border security operations.
  The ``One Big Ugly Bill'' gives the Trump administration billions to 
ramp up mass detentions and deportations, including American children 
with cancer, and deny due process to whomever they can, including those 
in the country legally.
  The ``One Big Ugly Bill'' spends $46.5 billion on Trump's failed 
border wall--which Trump originally said Mexico would pay for.
  That amount is nearly four times what Trump originally promised the 
wall would cost, and it is ten times what the bill spends on Customs 
and Border Protection personnel.
  The ``One Big Ugly Bill'' allows the Homeland Security Department to 
create a slush fund that will enable the worst impulses of the Trump 
administration, like private jets for the Secretary and securing the 
President's many multi-million-dollar golfing vacations at his branded 
properties.
  Mr. Speaker. I urge all my colleagues to reject the ``One Big Ugly 
Bill.''

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