Instead of Speaking For 8 Hours 44 Minutes and Delaying the Votes Hakeem and His Team Should Have Been on the Phone Holding the 5 Reds to their Test Vote Nays

In an attempt to keep the votes of 5 Red Who Voted Against the Big Beautiful Budget Bill
Hakeem Jefferies with his ego on all cylinders spoke for 8 hours and 44 minutes on why Reds should vote to kill
A new record for the length of a speech by the Ranking Minority Leader that ultimately drove members away to rebook flights and, for some Blues to call residents of their districts with Red members of Congress to call them and urge a "Nay" vote 
While Reds and Trump focused on keeping Red "Nay" votes to three or less
The Reds and Trump were successful to reducing the "Nay" votes to two
While Hakeem had a pyrrhic victory of delaying the vote while he was ranting the Speaker and his team to the "Aye" column enough votes for passage to the floor bring to
Hakeem set a speech record but failed to passage prevent
Fitting that the most massive tax cut in history on Independence Day will be to President Trump sent 

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