GOP Congressman Caught Sleeping During Hearing On Bill To Kick Millions Off Medicaid | EUROtoday

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) as soon as criticized former President Joe Biden’s administration for being “asleep at the wheel,” however was caught fairly actually napping himself on Wednesday throughout a House guidelines committee listening to on President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”

The laws might kick thousands and thousands of individuals off of Medicaid and curb eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps round 42 million Americans purchase meals every month, whereas extending the tax cuts Trump signed into regulation in 2017.

Republicans had set the assembly for 1 a.m., which seemed to be previous Norman’s bedtime.

“@RepRalphNorman is ripping health care away from 13 million Americans not exciting enough to stay awake?” Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) wrote on X, previously Twitter, with an accompanying video exhibiting Norman dozing off throughout the listening to.

Fernández posted the footage at 2:16 a.m., suggesting Norman solely made it via a little bit over an hour earlier than falling asleep. It was the second time in per week {that a} Republican member of Congress dozed off throughout a listening to associated to Trump’s consequential invoice.

“HE DOESN’T CARE,” wrote one person on X in response to the footage, with one other particular person commenting: “If only MAGA cared as much about the middle class as they do billionaires, the world would be a better place.”

The controversial laws would offer tons of of billions of {dollars} for Trump’s mass deportation initiative and a newly introduced “Golden Dome” missile protection system — which the president himself admitted Tuesday the U.S. navy hadn’t even requested for.

Republicans narrowly voted Sunday to advance the package deal, formally generally known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, with numerous holdouts demanding even quicker cuts to Medicaid and inexperienced vitality packages handed throughout Biden’s administration than it requires.

Norman himself shared some gripes Friday with the invoice and complained in a press release that the well being care portion “delays working requirements for able-bodied adults” till 2029 and doesn’t “combat Obamacare’s unfair Medicaid expansion” as a lot as he’d like.

As for a provision aiming to make Trump’s tax cuts everlasting, nonetheless, he wrote merely: “That is INCREDIBLE!!” The congressman is presently being wildly defended by pro-Trump customers on social media who argue the invoice will solely have an effect on unlawful immigrants.