Jeffries uses Elmo puppet to fight Republican $9 billion spending cuts bill

Elmo has a friend, in fact.

The leader of the minority, Hakim Jeffrez, Bring dn.y. A stuffed friend to help clarify a point at home on Thursday.

Jeffrez carried the Elmo doll stuffed while accusing Republicans of targeting loved children’s offers such as “Sesame Street” in pushing them to reduce federal spending.

“Today, we are on the ground of the House of Representatives, which discusses legislation targeting Elmo, Big Bird. Daniel Tiger and Sesame Street,” said Jeffrez, waving dolls wandering in the Republican Rescue Pack.

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The extensively distributed online, came during the debate about the proposed rescue operations for the Republicans for budget resources from President Trump, which would eliminate more than $ 9 billion of uninterrupted federal funds.

Among the targeted programs: 3 million dollars in support of taxpayers for an international version of Sesame Street in Iraq.

Democrats objected to what they described as a cultural and human sabotage hidden as a financial responsibility. “While I had killed all of Elmo,” Garcia said, while MP Sydney Kamelger-Dava handed over California, one of the most sharp lines of the day: “While you all killed, I urge my colleagues to vote on this garbage and gave.”

The Republicans rejected the theatrical and defended the package as a retreat from the enlarged ideological spending. The draft law also includes broader discounts for the public broadcasting company, which supports PBS and NPR, long targets of financial conservatives who argue that the taxpayer should not support public media.

Representative Lisa McLean, R. -Mish, refuted, “I never realized that Elmo was more important to my colleagues on the other side of the corridor than the American people.”

Scales said that the majority leader in parliament Steve Scales, R. La.

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“I was watching a commercial advertisement on TV yesterday, where Monster was already making an advertisement for Netflix because a private company is paying money to run Sesame Street. It’s not disappearing. It’s fine. Very profitable.”

Scalise argued that the draft law does not threaten the survival of Sesame Street, only supporting his taxpayer, and called what he described as “left -wing, radical views” that are promoted through ports like NPR and PBS.

“There are still a large number of options for the American people,” he said. “But if they were paying their hard -class dollars to get content, then why should tax dollars go to only one thing that the other side wants to promote?”

“They can still see the Sesame Street in Iraq. But let the Iraqi people pay for it – not taxpayers for the children of the United States of America.”

Representative Sydney Kamlger-Daf, extending California, provides notes during a discussion in the House of Representatives on a draft law to save the Republican Party in the Capitol in the United States in Washington, on Thursday, June 12, 2025. Kamejar Davi echoed the democratic anger on the proposed discounts to the public media, accusing a republican of “killing”. (Swimming pool)

Even more eyebrows were the inclusion of global health spending from taxpayers for procedures such as circumcision.

Among the linear elements that have been marked by the Republican Party: $ 3 million to support circumcision, male condoms and condoms in Zambia, as well as grants similar to transformed surgeries in Nepal. Republicans claimed that withdrawing these types of low -effect or ideological funds was a logical first step towards returning to more than $ 9 billion to the US Treasury.

The draft law approved the Committee for the House of Representatives earlier this week, and Democrats in the Senate referred to strong opposition.

The draft law passed the House of Representatives in a vote 214-212. Four Republicans, Mark Amoudi representatives, R. Neve; Mike Turner, O Ouo; Brian Fitzpatrick, Ra Ba. And Nicole Malekays, RN.Y. , Breaking rows of voting against the bill. The voice of all Democrats is no.

There is no word yet from Elo. But with Congress in the session, brides continue.

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Hakim Jeffrez’s minority leader, Hakim Jeffrez, did not respond immediately on the request of Fox News Digital for comment.