The GOP selected to betray each morality and financial widespread sense by approving Trump’s one large, ugly invoice.
Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson, R-La., surrounded by Republican members of Congress, indicators President Donald Trump’s signature invoice of tax breaks and spending cuts, Thursday, July 3, 2025, on the Capitol in Washington.
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In the course of the tortured last congressional debate earlier than the US Home of Representatives accepted the legislative monstrosity that Donald Trump dubbed “the one large, stunning invoice”—and that detractors have extra precisely described as “the one large ugly invoice”—US Consultant Don Beyer delivered a second of ethical readability.
“From the Gospel of Matthew,” began the Virginia Democrat, who learn aloud from the ground of the Home:
I used to be thirsty, and also you gave me drink.
I used to be a stranger, and also you took me in.
I used to be bare, and also you clothed me.
I used to be sick, and also you visited me.
I used to be in jail, and also you got here unto me.
Inasmuch as you may have carried out it unto one of many least of my brothers, you may have carried out it unto me.
When he had completed the biblical reading, Beyer mentioned, “Mr. Speaker, the invoice earlier than us takes food and drinks from the mouths of the poor. It takes healthcare from the sick. A vote for this invoice betrays these Gospel teachings, and in our hearts all of us understand it.”
Beyer was proper. Each member of Congress, be they liberal or conservative, Democratic or Republican, knew that the invoice, which was in the end approved on Thursday by a 218-214 vote, was written in a approach that may:
The Trump administration’s main home coverage scheme was unanimously opposed by each Home and Senate Democrats, who acknowledged the ethical and sensible catastrophe that may unfold because of the laws. It was supported by the overwhelming majority of Republicans within the Senate—the place Vice President J.D. Vance broke a 50-50 tie vote—and within the Home, the place all however two GOP members, who typically preach about morality, put apart their consciences so as to do Trump’s bidding.
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Congressional Republicans did their greatest to make the controversy about all the pieces however what was in the bill. They didn’t wish to face the ethical implications of what they have been doing to the least of their brothers and sisters. However the fact was unavoidable. Twenty American Catholic bishops and leaders of the Sisters of Mercy group of Roman Catholic ladies joined Lutheran, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Baptist, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Muslim, and Jewish religion leaders in signing a letter to members of Congress that warned in regards to the methods by which the measure targets asylum-seekers and refugees—and the religion communities that serve them—by inflicting chaos and by driving the working poor deeper into poverty.
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“Based on the nonpartisan Congressional Price range Workplace (CBO), the invoice transfers wealth from these within the backside 10 p.c of revenue to these within the prime 10 p.c of revenue in our nation, rising the already massive hole between the wealthy and the poor,” defined the His Eminence Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, DC, and different non secular leaders, who added that, “From our numerous religion views, the ethical take a look at of a nation is the way it treats these most in want of assist. In our view, this laws will hurt the poor and susceptible in our nation, to the detriment of the widespread good.”
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