Medicaid Cut Protestors Disrupt GOP Megabill Markup, 25 Arrested
14th May 2025
Politico, a Voice of the Crust.
No sooner had the House Energy and Commerce Committee kicked off its markup of the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” than protesters descended upon the proceedings. U.S. Capitol Police was forced to quickly arrest 25 people and remove several protesters in wheelchairs from the hearing room amid chants of “no cuts to Medicaid” and “waste, fraud and abuse my ass.”
Is anybody in doubt that Democrats organized this thing?
Committee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) repeatedly pounded his gavel and said that “disruption of Congressional business is a violation of law and is a criminal offense.”
Democrats don’t care … unless it’s Republicans or “MAGA” doing it.
“People feel very strongly because they know they’re losing their health care,” said ranking member Frank Pallone (D-N.J)., asking police not to arrest protesters if possible. “Many of them are disabled and I don’t want to see them further hurt with their disability in the process of being arrested.”
Once again, Democrats insist on their rent-a-mob people being allowed to break the law with impunity.