House Speaker Mike Johnson ordered the sergeant-at-arms to remove Rep. Al Green from the House chamber less than five minutes into Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress.
Green, a Texas Democrat who has long protested Trump’s presidency, stood up and disrupted Trump’s speech. “He has no mandate to cut Medicaid. You don’t have a mandate,” Green said, as other Democrats booed the president’s comments.
Green’s protest were in apparent reference to Republicans’ proposal to find $880 billion in mandatory spending cuts on programs overseen by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which includes Medicaid.