During his nearly nine-hour floor speech opposing passage of the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies used Louisiana to underscore his argument that

“Mean and cruel” — that’s how U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto described Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump’s budget bill after passage in the Senate. She gathered Nevada health care leaders and workers July 2 to talk about how the state would be affected.

GOP congressional leaders managed to deliver the legislation to the president's desk ahead of his self-imposed July 4 deadline.