Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) is being slammed on social media for decrying a litany of words that Democrats used to describe President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” during a House rules committee hearing early Wednesday morning.
“I am concerned about what has been said about this bill and what it’s going to do, the extreme comments that have been made about it, and how I believe that it is scaring people out there in the country unnecessarily,” Foxx said during the hearing.
“The words I’ve heard particularly today are: cut, rip, gut, kill, cruel, stealing food, losing coverage, jam through, biggest transfer of wealth from vulnerable to wealthy people, irresponsible,” she continued. “That is not the way we ought to be talking about this bill.”
The reactions on social media, meanwhile, suggest these are perfectly apt descriptors for it.
“Yes it fucking is. That’s what it fucking does,” wrote one user on X, formerly Twitter, with another person commenting: “When every descriptor sounds like a horror movie, maybe the script needs rewriting. Don’t blame the audience for noticing.”
