Senator Roger Marshall said demonstrators protesting Medicaid cuts were "probably hired," and dismissed their concerns as a "sugar high" from pandemic spending.

Pallone went unheeded. The Hill reported that more than two dozen protesters were arrested for civil disobedience, including wheelchair users. One protester, while being escorted out of the room by the police, shouted, “You will kill me,” according to the Independent ’s Eric Garcia.

A surprise holdout by ultraconservative members of the House Budget Committee Thursday forced Speaker Mike Johnson to entertain significant changes to the GOP’s sweeping domestic policy bill.