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 gained’t get a do-over on it.
Oliver devoted Sunday’s major phase of “Final Week Tonight” to slamming the so-called “large, 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 way of as a result of they know the way poisonous it’s,” Oliver mentioned.
Trump is raring to signal the laws earlier than the July Fourth vacation.
Whereas acknowledging that “there’s a lot occurring proper now,” Oliver argued “it’s price being attentive to this invoice as a result of if it turns into regulation, we’re going to be wanting again on it a long time from now the identical means we glance again in any respect the damaging shit that Reagan did. And when that occurs, Republicans can’t say they didn’t know what was in it or what it could do.”
Then got here one in all his most scathing strains:
“Everybody who votes for this needs to be held accountable. Or, to place it in phrases that (Louisiana GOP Sen.) John Kennedy can perceive: ‘If you happen to’re going to vote for this invoice, you higher French kiss it. Hell, you would possibly as nicely put its entire cock in your mouth — since you’re going to be married to it for the remainder of your fucking life.’”
