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During debate on the Illinois House floor Wednesday, state Rep.
Katie Stuart, D-Edwardsville, said Trump’s actions are rattling
the stock market and hurting Illinois families’ savings.
“This isn’t 12-dimensional chess, this isn’t playing hardball
with trading partners, this is playing with working people who
put their trust in the markets and try to build a safe and
secure retirement,” Stuart said.
State Rep. Blaine Wilhour, R-Beecher City, told majority
Democrats at the statehouse complaining about the Trump
administration to clean up their own house.
“We can’t build anything in Illinois because you guys have
destroyed, you’ve destroyed our economy with your massive
regulations, with your massive taxes on everybody, on business
and families and everything else,” Wilhour said.
Gender ideology also took center stage during points of personal
privilege Wednesday after Trump made a point of working to end
men playing in women's sports.
State Rep. Kelly Cassidy, D-Chicago, criticized Republicans for
focusing on the issue.
“These are our children we are talking about,” Cassidy said.
“You are making targets out of kids. You are driving children to
suicide.”
State Rep. Bill Hauter, R-Morton, a medical doctor, provided a
recent study showing that it’s gender surgeries and medical
procedures causing suicidal ideation.
“These are facts and evidence, not conards and not feelings,”
Hauter said. “Please stop these harmful surgeries in Illinois
medicine.”
Cassidy fired back with studies showing adolescents with gender
dysphoria that get medical gender procedures are less likely to
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