Several religious activists were arrested on Monday Capitol Rotunda for demonstrating against Planned GOP cuts On Medicaid second time in as many months.
Rev. William Barber led a group of priests in a few minutes of prayer in front of the Statue of the Rotunda building, immediately after the groups advised the Senior Capitol, that they were banning demonstrations in violation.
Berber and several others can see how to continue to pray while guided in the zipper, in the video he recorded Independent on the protest.
Like Barberi and his group get the first warning, a large group of at least two dozen copitol police officers formed a line separating a group from away groups all over the room.
Other officers quickly began to direct those tour tours. In a few minutes, the Group received its second warning, and officers in the police line started by ordering journalists in the room to go out and exhibit.
“We’ll pray. If they’re arrested, that’s on them,” Barber said Independent in front of their arrest.
His words have repeatedly touched on Republican Budget matching account Last month, the Chamber of Representatives, who is now in the Senate in which lawmakers for transportation will begin to discuss the changes to Donald Trump “one big, beautiful law” – including separation in multiple packages.
In the core of legislation is the effort to finance Expansion of tax cuts for 2017. year He passed during the Trump First Administration, and the Republic Lawmakers work by adding a request for work, including Congresh’s budget office, endangers the eligibility of millions of Americans.
It was the second time the barber and his organization, violation services, were involved in the prayer demonstration against the GOP budget, and is visible in the management of the Capitol police officer who participated in the arrest. Barber’s first arrest happened at the end of April.
Said one source that was familiar with the business of a building Independent That the Capitol Police was expecting a group demonstration on Monday. Barber and his group walked from the Supreme Court, where the rally was held in front of the demonstration.
Several police officers kept their foxes tied to the ties before the start of the arrest, and in couples of the group came out of the room with their joints, and are now watching from afar. Reverend, who walked fierce with the help of two sticks, was the last – together with a woman in a wheelchair – to refrain from the room.
Independent He was a witness of the Barber who was taken into the side hallway, away from sight. A total of eight people were arrested, according to a representative for violations repairs.
In the interview on Monday morning, Barber said the GOP budget bills were planned to change the changes and changes to the child with children, a moral issue that should cross the typical divisions for the Washington entertainment.
“It’s interesting enough, we’re only arrested,” Barber said in his demonstration in May. “They pass the account that redesign – booty – in the poorest of us and we are arrested for mooting.
“Claire said this is a moral question. It’s not a Republican or Democrat. It’s a moral question,” he continued.
He was walking in the words for the home speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans who claimed that the analysis of the budget laws suggest that millions are in danger of losing the eligibility of Medicaid whether it was transient.
Barber said that disproportionate benefits of GOP for 2017. For richer Americans amounted to 2025. The reconciliation of the greatest robbery from the Americans of lower income in history, except for slavery.
“These people get up every morning and decide in a way to use the power to hurt people,” he said. “There is no reason to even touch Medicaid. It’s a whole point. The only reason they do it is because they try to get money to reduce taxes …
Reverend long-term activist for low-income Americans and raising federal minimum wages through its organization and a larger group, is part of the poor people’s campaign.
His moral Monday gathered, held in the DC, his home country of north caroline and elsewhere, they occupied leftist leaders leaders on issues that affect the low-income communities in the entire country for more than a decade. Barber also gathered voters to support the former Vice President Kamal Harris during the election 2024.
In recent times, the 61-year-old is charged with direct transfer of funds from repairing violations into a personal joint bank account, which then used to pay for alimony. His lawyer told local newspapers, Raleigh News and observerthat her requirements are “not true”.