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It would not be the case.

Minutes later a group of protesters started to scream at the back of the Capitol Hill’s hearing room against legislators to “keep your greedy hands of our Medicaid.”

They drowned out the calls of the chairman to order and Capitol Police Officers eventually removed five people – three in wheelchairs – while the dozens of legislators watched on the panel. (The Capitol police later said that officers had arrested 26 people because they protested illegally in a congress building.)

The disturbances were a raw kick -off for a meeting that went all night and it was expected that it would continue until Wednesday – a member of the committee estimated that it could take up to 28 hours – because Republicans and Democrats spoke the plan, an important part of the most important legislation to introduce President Trump’s domestic agenda.

It unfolded as the tax -writing Ways Ways and Means committee to consider a tax proposal of $ 2.5 trillion that the tax reductions of Mr Trump 2017 would extend; temporarily fulfilling his campaign promises not to tax tips or overtime; Return subsidies for clean energy; And make a new type of investment account for tax straps for children.

Democrats about the Ways and Means Committee tried in vain to expand tax credits who helped to buy people at the Obamacare marketplaces. The subsidies are planned to end at the end of the year, and the Congressional Budget Office estimates that More than four million people This loses the coverage.

Representative Steven Horsford, Democrat van Nevada, proposed an amendment that the extra financing Permanent. He argued that because Republicans used An unconventional form of accounting In their attempt to make other tax cuts permanent, they must use the same approach to keep insurance premiums affordable.

“In the same breath you cannot say that it is OK to offer tax cuts for billionaires and that can be free and not offer a tax reduction for working families for health care, in God’s sake,” he said.

A third panel, the House Agriculture Committee, also gathered on Tuesday evening and started to consider part of the bill that would lower food aid to raise money for the plan.

But the majority of the drama on Tuesday was in the Energy and Commerce Committee. During the first hour alone, Republicans who made opening declarations were repeatedly interrupted by protesters who accused them of removing health care from vulnerable people. Gop -legislers, in turn, accused Democrats of incorrectly displaying the Medicaid cuts that they propose to score political points.

Mr. Guthrie worked to maintain control over the procedure, at a certain point chairing a screaming competition about whether members of his panel were allowed to use the word ‘lying’ in their comments. (Republicans were allowed to say that Democrats were lying about the scope of the Medicaid cuts, but Democrats were not allowed to say that Mr. Trump was lying about his desire to protect the program. An informal agreement to simply avoid the word ‘lie’ for the rest of the session fell apart a few hours later.)

Even some democratic senators came on the spectacle. Senators Cory Booker from New Jersey, Brian Schatz van Hawaii and Tina Smith from Minnesota were present.

That was all before the legislators had discussed a single determination of the measure. Eight hours after the hearing, the committee had to debate about the medicaid cuts, instead aimed at other changes in environmental and energy policy.

The proposed reductions of the bill in the coverage of Medicaid and its expansion under the Affordable Care Act have become a flash point for Democrats and a care area for vulnerable Republicans who are wary of the political consequences of supporting cuts on insurance programs that have become popular with Americans.

Although Huis Republicans Away from a huge structural overhaul of MedicaidTheir proposal would reduce federal expenses with an estimated $ 912 billion and 8.6 million people become uninsured, according to a partial analysis of the Congressional Budget Office that was distributed by Democrats in the committee. About $ 700 billion in cuts would come from changes to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.

Republicans argued that their proposed cuts would help to control the rising medicaid costs by focusing on “waste and abuse” and guaranteeing the long-term health of the program.

“Medicaid was established to protect health care for Americans who otherwise could not support themselves, but Democrats expanded the program much further than this core mission,” said Mr. Guthrie.

Their proposal requires stricter paperwork requirements in the program, makes changes that influence federal financing to states and add a work requirement to Medicaid who requires poor, childless adults to prove that they work 80 hours every month to stay registered.

That provision, aimed at an expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, would only start in January 2029 after the next presidential elections.

During their opening comments, Democrats stopped in the matching posters committee with photos of voters that they considered the ‘faces of Medicaid’. The legislators told their stories as a way to humanize people who trust the program.

Representative Debbie Dingell from Michigan immediately addressed a family who had traveled to Washington during the hearing, which she said he needed medicaid to take care of a child with Down’s syndrome. Texas representative Marc Veaseey held his phone to the microphone and invited a voter to talk about how Medicaid influenced her. Mr. Guthrie ruled that outside of order.

Some people who are emphasized were not at risk of losing coverage under the Republican proposal. And Democrats often claimed that the Republican plan would ensure that 13.7 million Americans become uninsured, Blow the effects of the bill on coverage with around five million people.

Republican legislators accused Democrats of unfair politics on these discrepancies and accused Democrats.

“No person on these posters will be influenced,” said representative Kat Cammack of Florida.

“It is a shame that people are so furious because of wrong information,” said Alabama Republic, Republican Republican, referring to a woman who was taken from the Chamber by the police after shouting that she was HIV positive and that the Medicid “will kill” will kill me. “

When the hearing began, the corridor was full of demonstrators, many of them wore shirts or lower plates with the text ‘Hands off medicaid’. Others wore shirts with the text ‘Fight for Planned Parenthood’. The organization is the target of a provision in the bill that would block Medicaid for financing care providers who also offer abortion services.

“Hopefully everyone understands that these demonstrations – people feel very strong,” said representative Frank Pallone Jr., the top democrat in the committee. “Because they know they are losing their health care.”

Catie Edmondson contributed reporting.