As President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending invoice inches nearer to passage within the Senate, John Oliver issued a stark warning to Republicans ― that they received’t get a do-over on it.
Oliver devoted Sunday’s important phase of “Final Week Tonight” to slamming the so-called “massive, stunning invoice,” which specialists have warned will strip well being care protection and meals help from tens of millions of individuals.
“Proper now Republicans try to hurry this invoice by as a result of they understand how poisonous it’s,” Oliver mentioned.
Trump is keen to signal the laws earlier than the July Fourth vacation.
Whereas acknowledging that “there’s a lot happening proper now,” Oliver argued “it’s value taking note of this invoice as a result of if it turns into legislation, we’re going to be trying again on it many years from now the identical manner we glance again in any respect the harmful shit that Reagan did. And when that occurs, Republicans can not say they didn’t know what was in it or what it might do.”
Then got here one in all his most scathing traces:
“Everybody who votes for this must be held accountable. Or, to place it in phrases that (Louisiana GOP Sen.) John Kennedy can perceive: ‘For those who’re going to vote for this invoice, you higher French kiss it. Hell, you would possibly as properly put its entire cock in your mouth — since you’re going to be married to it for the remainder of your fucking life.’”