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.”
The legislation, known formally as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, could kick millions of people off of Medicaid and curb eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that helps some 42 million people purchase food each month.
It would also extend tax cuts Trump signed into law in 2017 and pump hundreds of billions of dollars into his mass deportation campaign and newly announced “Golden Dome” missile defense system, which the cuts to health and food programs would serve to offset.
Republicans ultimately pushed the bill through the House of Representatives after Wednesday night’s hearing, following various GOP holdouts, and several economic analyses warning Tuesday that the legislation would favor the rich.
The Congressional Budget Office said the bill would shrink resources for the lowest-income households by 2% in 2027, and the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center found that households making over $217,000 would reap 60% of the tax cut benefits by next year.
While its successful passage in the House early Wednesday marks a victory for Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), the bill’s prospects in the Senate remain uncertain.
Foxx’s frustration with verbs and adjectives is getting mocked on social media.
In other words, “please don’t call this bill what it is or say what it does.”
If you didn’t watch any of our testimony, Rep. Foxx sums it up pretty well. https://t.co/mr9RRnICds
— Rep. Veronica Escobar (@RepEscobar) May 22, 2025