This week in Washington, D.C., lawmakers and residents alike are cooling down after the long-awaited passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act less than a day before President Trump’s July 4th deadline. The bill delivered several key conservative wins; it secures tax cuts for American families, delivers no tax on tips and overtime, bolsters funding for law enforcement agencies, increases the Child Tax Credit, and, most importantly for Concerned Women for America (CWA), delivers a one-year defunding of Planned Parenthood’s access to Medicaid dollars. This is the first time Congress has ever successfully defunded Big Abortion, setting a precedent for future Congresses to do the same.
On July 3, the House of Representatives moved remarkably slowly in voting to deliver the reconciliation package to the President’s desk—the delay was largely due to Democratic Minority Leader Jeffries’ (D-New York 8) record-breaking marathon speech. From roughly 5:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Leader Jeffries used his leadership privileges to essentially filibuster a final vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill. For almost nine hours, he laid out a sweeping criticism of the Republican reconciliation package, repeating often that he felt it his responsibility to “take his sweet time for the American people.”
While it is the duty of the minority leader to serve as a voice for the minority party in the House, Jeffries’ speech went too far. He fell from reasonable dissent into lies, emotionally charged anecdotes, and Biblical distortions.
Like a broken record, every half an hour or so, Jeffries repeated that the “Big Ugly Bill” would “rip food from the mouths of hungry children.” This claim is markedly untrue. The One Big Beautiful Bill tightens Medicaid, SNAP, and WIC qualification standards to ensure impoverished working families, disabled individuals, single mothers, and genuinely unemployed citizens of the United States can benefit fully and most efficiently from those welfare services. Under the Biden administration, waste, fraud, and abuse watered down those programs, and the Big Beautiful Bill seeks to restore fiscal responsibility and efficacy to the social safety net.
More disturbing than Jeffries’ many political lies was his abuse of Scripture on the House floor. Around noon, Jeffries quoted Matthew 25:35-36, “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick…” And then he went off track, inserting himself into the word of God, continuing, “maybe I needed Medicare, or Medicaid, or the Affordable Care Act, or the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or Planned Parenthood” and finishing back in Matthew, “I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to see me.”
Christians should absolutely look to Scripture to form and shape our politics, but Jeffries’ weak attempt at Biblical interpretation didn’t fit the bill. He revealed himself to be nothing but the head of a brood of vipers seeking to use the Word of God to cover for the nation’s largest abortion provider and lie about Republicans’ efforts to improve social welfare programs like CHIP, Medicaid, and SNAP.
In referencing Matthew 25, Jeffries bent Scripture to fit his remarkably offensive and unbiblical partisan narrative. No one “needs” Planned Parenthood’s abortion-centered services. Pregnancy is not a disease; abortion is not healthcare, and over 20,000 Pregnancy Resource Centers and Federally Qualified Health Centers stand ready to provide women real sexual healthcare, life-affirming family planning services, cancer screenings, and prenatal care. Abortion is profoundly anti-Christian, and to insert Planned Parenthood into a passage of Scripture for personal or political gain is appalling.
Leader Jeffries didn’t stop with the Gospel of Matthew. He went on to bend John 10:10, too. There, Jesus says to His disciples, “The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” Jeffries intended to use this passage to accuse Republicans of “stealing” social welfare programs from the less fortunate, but irony set in quickly for any reasonable listener. He had mentioned Planned Parenthood only moments earlier—a corporation that kills 1,102 preborn babies every day, destroys and mutilates children’s bodies with experimental puberty blockers and chemical castration drugs, and steals life, love, and innocence from families, mothers, and children across the nation. But praise God—the truth is that CWA Legislative Action Committee (CWA LAC) is working to create a country where abortion is unthinkable, where moms and babies are supported together, and where the Constitution’s promise of life to all citizens of the United States is fully upheld. CWA LAC is working and praying for the passage of several pro-life, pro-family laws; for example, Rep. Diana Harshbarger’s (R-Tennessee 1) Pregnancy.Gov Act which, if passed, will establish an easy online resource for mothers facing unexpected pregnancies, abuse, or postnatal needs to find and contact local Pregnancy Resource Centers.
Speaker Mike Johnson responded to Leader Jeffries’ marathon speech with grace and clarity, opening with a powerful sentence after nine hours of Jeffries’ rambling lies and repetition. He said, “It takes a lot longer to build a lie than to tell the simple truth.”
Even from the halls of Congress, it is clear that Christians should “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves” (Matthew 7:15). May the simple truth prevail as the One Big Beautiful Bill goes into effect across the nation, and may we pray that not one more family, father, mother, or preborn child is stolen, killed, or destroyed by the abortion industry.
