Watch: Cory Booker cheers protesters who interrupt the home budget mark hearing

More than two dozen protesters were arrested for undermining House energy and commercial budget settlement markers as Senator Cory Booker, DN.J. thanked those courts held in the corridor.

"Twenty-six people were arrested for illegal demonstrations at the Rayburn House office building. They were arrested for crowding, obstruction and inadequacy of 22-1307 people. The illegal acts protested against buildings inside Congress."

Dozens of protesters, many in wheelchairs, shouted in the lobby outside John Dingle's room in the Rayben Indoor Office Building on Tuesday afternoon: "No Medicaid cuts!" Several protesters were arrested by Capitol police after multiple warnings at the entrance to the lockdown committee's meeting room.

A provocative booker left in the first hour’s budget mark and was greeted by cheers and whistles from those protesting Medicaid cuts. Booker spent more than 12 hours protesting President Donald Trump’s agenda two weeks ago on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, thanking protesters for appearing to protect Medicaid.

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Demonstrators calling for the preservation of Medicaid funds will be removed from the House Energy and Commercial Marks in the Rayben Building on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)

A Capitol policeman confirmed to Fox News Digital that the disruptor was arrested for protests and will be dealt with and released immediately. In the delegate’s testimony, other protesters remained in the corridor, while others were removed from office and subsequently arrested.

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"Listen to you all are here and attend. We want you to be here. You are part of the process. We want you to be here, but we have to keep going. And the rules of the house, the law is - if you are subversive, you will be removed from office, you will be arrested, I don't make that decision, I won't make a decision, the Kentucky Republican committee, the Kentucky committee. Protesters.

In the budget mark, Democrats and Republicans cheated on the rhetoric of Medicaid cuts. Democrats claim that the Republican Budget Act would cut important opportunities for Medicaid, with many delegates sharing stories of voters who benefited from their services. Meanwhile, Republicans accused Democrats of lying to the American people about Medicaid cuts—the term Guthrie prevented his colleagues from using it.

"I want to send a very clear message: You're cheated. The other party tells you a lot about this legislation. I'm not sure if they read this legislation," said RN.C. Richard Hudson, chaired by the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee.

Republicans mostly avoided in-depth cuts in Medicaid driven by fiscal conservatives in the House Republican meeting, which could benefit moderate Republicans who benefited from the Democratic ruthless attack on potential Medicaid cuts. But House Republicans have vowed to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in Medicaid.

Protesters abandoned the House’s energy and commercial budget settlement markers on Tuesday. (Fox News figures)

The committee’s budget marking includes plans to increase regulations and cut medical expenses, including tightening address verification requirements, ensuring that deceased individuals are not enrolled, more provider screening requirements, removing excessive Medicaid payments, revising housing equity restrictions, determining eligibility, prohibiting illegal immigrants from obtaining medical expenses to ensure that medical expenses are obtained, and accurate financing procedures are ensured to ensure that traditional engineering is established, and transgender engineering is established, and the scope of the engineering is provided.

“This budget does not cut Medicaid, Medicare or Social Security benefits for Americans who really need them. We are strengthening and protecting Medicaid for pregnant women, children, people with disabilities, low-income elderly and vulnerable families. These Americans will continue to receive the care they need and deserve. What we are doing is to eliminate waste, fraud, fraud and abuse, Rep.

But while Republicans assured that the proposed budget would not cut Medicaid, Democrats testified about the threat plan to cut positions that constituted for Americans.

Protesters destroyed the House of Representatives’ budget settlement markers for energy and commerce on Tuesday. (Fox News figures) (Fox News figures)

“They are cutting this Medicaid care and these Medicaids to pay for the tax cuts Elon Musk and billionaires, so that money doesn’t even provide better care funds for those who are eligible… We are cutting money and health care for those suffering and families to pay taxes for the wealthy. This is a crime that has taken place in front of the U.S. public.

The proposed legislation will provide a new 80-hour work requirement for certain adults aged 19 to 64.

This will also place guardrails on states spending funds on their expanded Medicaid population. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) allows states to expand Medicaid coverage to account for 138% of adults at poverty levels.

Representative of Right Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y. and D-Mich. Debbie Dingell participated in the home energy and commercial markings at the Rayburn building on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)

More specifically, states that provide Medicaid coverage to illegal immigrants may see their federal Medicaid reimbursement reduced, thus reducing more costs to the state itself.

The bill will also require additional states with expanded Medicaid population to conduct eligibility checks every six months to ensure that the system is not abused.

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The Energy and Commerce Commission has broad jurisdiction, including responsibilities related to federal health programs, telecommunications and energy, whose mission is to find at least $880 billion in spending cuts to cover other priorities in Trump's "big and beautiful bill."

Guthrie told House Republicans on a phone call Sunday night that the group found "$900 billion in the North" in savings.

Deirdre Heaveny is a political writer at Fox News Digital.