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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) exposed the truth about Republicans’ most significant betrayal of our seniors to date: the so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
Full remarks can be watched below:
Transcript below:
GONZALEZ: Mr. Speaker, I rise today on behalf of every senior citizen in Texas and across America.
Unfortunately, it’s not with celebration, but with outrage and disgust. I’m here to shed continued light to the damage this institution has caused seniors by the recent passage of this Big, Beautiful Bill, which was anything but. It is the most significant betrayal of our senior citizens yet. A betrayal of our values and our nation’s promise.
Folks, let’s not be fooled by the branding. This bill wasn’t beautiful. It was brutal. It slashed Medicare funding under the guise of reform. It wrapped its cruelty in buzzwords like “efficiency” and “modernization” and “fiscal responsibility.”
But beneath the surface, it is a cold and calculated attempt to strip millions of Americans of the dignity they have earned over a lifetime of work.
This bill tells our parents and grandparents, thank you for building this country. Now, go fend for yourself.
It says to the most vulnerable: health care is a luxury in this country, not a right. And they dare to call it beautiful.
Let’s be clear Medicare is not a handout. It is a sacred promise paid by workers every day their entire lives. And it is a lifeline for seniors choosing between food and prescriptions, for families relying on home health care, for Americans who believe that aging should not come with abandonment. Cutting Medicare was not fiscally responsible. It was a moral failure.
All of this was done at the bequest of their master. A master who wants tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy billionaires and multinational corporations, and empty slogans for the rest of Americans. It has sacrificed the well-being of American retirees on the altar of political theater.
In fact, they were so diabolical about it that they purposely set a start date for these policies: December 2026, right after midterm elections, trying to poke seniors’ eyes.
They want to fool voting senior citizens by making these painful policies kick in right after November elections. They’re not fooling anyone, folks.
Americans are smarter than this. We need health care policies that uplift older Americans, not undermine them. That care for them, not cast them aside.
That honor our social contract to American senior citizens.
So, to those who voted for this bill, don’t call it beautiful. Own what it is: a betrayal to older Americans who helped build this country.
To every senior who is watching today to every caregiver, to every grandchild and child caring for an older American, to every worker in Texas and across this great nation in hopes to retire with peace and dignity: we see you, we hear you, and we will not stop fighting.
And I yield back.
