Multiple people were escorted out of the U.S. Capitol in handcuffs after protesting proposed cuts to Medicaid on Wednesday.
Some laid down on the floor of the U.S. Capitol to call out proposed cuts to Medicaid in the massive tax cut and spending bill referred to by President Trump and Republicans as his so-called "Big Beautiful Bill."
The tax cut and spending plan is facing fierce pushback from Democrats, who say the cuts to Medicaid and other programs will leave millions of Americans out to dry.
"You're cutting Medicaid, food assistance, childcare, making it harder for women to participate in the workforce all to give tax breaks to people who already have access to all of these things," Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, said.
A review from the independent group KFF estimates nearly one million people in Florida would be at risk of losing their health coverage if the bill is signed into law.