Pressley, House Dems Opposed Bill That Will Gut Healthcare, Housing & Food Assistance While Emboldening Musk-Trump Assault on Our Democracy
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) issued the following statement after the Senate’s passage of Republicans’ shameful government spending bill, which will harm vulnerable families as Elon Musk and Donald Trump continue their unprecedented hostile government takeover.
Rep. Pressley voted against the legislation in the House and had implored her Senate colleagues to hold the line, reject the false choice, and instead support a clean, 30-day stopgap funding measure to allow for bipartisan negotiations on a longer-term funding bill.
“The Republicans’ budget bill that just passed the Senate is nothing short of devastating. Every Representative and Senator who voted to support it has let down the communities that elected them to be their voice in Congress. Rather than listen to the pleas from constituents in town halls across the country, Republicans chose to ignore them. When our communities begin to feel the harm of this reckless budget, there will be no one to blame but Republicans licking the boots of Donald Trump and Elon Musk and the handful of Democrats who chose not to fight. Tonight, I am thinking of the kids in pediatric cancer trials, the parents trying to stretch their dollars to cover groceries, the federal workers wronged by this cruel Trump White House, and all of the people across the country who are failed by this budget.”
“I voted NO on this bad-faith budget bill. I refuse to be complicit in Republicans’ attack on our most vulnerable, and I’m grateful to the overwhelming number of Democratic colleagues in both chambers who held the line and joined us in opposing this disgraceful legislation. I will always center the people, and I will continue standing in the gap and fighting this Administration like lives depend on it, because they do.”
