Trump Ally Calls Trans Congresswoman ‘Mr. McBride’ On House Floor — Here’s How She Responded

Trump ally Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) misgendered Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) on the House floor, introducing her as “The Gentleman from Delaware, Mr. McBride.”

Miller presided over Thurday morning’s House session, during which members are given the opportunity to make general speeches.

Rep. McBride — who became the first openly transwoman elected to Congress in November and has faced intense harassment from Republicans like Rep. Nance Mace (R-SC) — responded to the misgendering by not missing a beat as she lit into President Donald Trump and his administration for a solid 5 minutes:

REP. MARY MILLER: The chair recognizes the gentleman from Delaware, Mr. McBride, for five minutes.

REP. SARAH MCBRIDE: Thank you, Madam Speaker.

When I was elected, I promised to work with anyone who would help Delaware and Delawareans and to stand up to anyone who seeks to harm my state.

Instead of seeking common ground, the Trump administration from day one has waged an unrelenting attack on working people in Delaware and across the country, seeking to freeze funding for first responders, domestic violence shelters, schools, and health care facilities that my constituents rely on.

Last week, as I traveled up and down our state meeting with seniors, military families, students, mayors, doctors and nurses, the fear and outrage was palpable. People were terrified by the administration’s funding freeze.

A senior center in the heart of my state was worried that they wouldn’t be able to provide meals to the Delawareans they serve.

Critical services like opioid prevention programs could grind to a halt. Research programs Fostering innovation in Delaware already received stop work orders putting Delaware jobs at risk.

Mayors were fearful they wouldn’t be able to pay first responders or continue pivotal water and transportation infrastructure projects. Perhaps most disturbing, some hospitals, community health centers and clinics that serve rural and urban communities facing desperate health deserts don’t know if they’ll be able to continue serving some of our state’s most vulnerable.

In all of these instances, the federal funds my state relies on were appropriated by Congress and signed into law by the executive. But the current administration is threatening to illegally freeze funding for these lifesaving services and to gut the federal workforce tasked with helping my neighbors.

It has thrown communities across Delaware and around the country into chaos, and that is their goal. The attacks we’ve seen in recent days on public servants and lifesaving programs administered by USAID don’t just put our security and health globally at risk. They lay the foundation here at home to gut federal support for education, for health care, for housing, for child care, for workers.

If they can do what they are doing at USAID, they can do it anywhere in the federal government. That means no place, no program is safe from unilateral evisceration. This week, it’s USAID. Tomorrow it may be the Departments of Education and Labor.

And we shouldn’t pretend that this path doesn’t ultimately lead to Social Security and Medicare. Piece by piece. Department by department. The Trump administration is defunding critical federal services, purging employees, consolidating power and cutting and gutting programs that Delawareans rely on.

They are trying to decimate the federal government and sell it for parts to line the pockets of donors at the expense of working people. It is clear they do not want to solve the problems facing the American people. They do not want to make government more efficient.

They want to prove that government can’t work by making it not work.

In 1941, Franklin Roosevelt was in this very chamber and declared that necessities men are not free men. That democracies can’t survive if people are hungry or out of a job.

They want Americans hungry. They want Americans scared for their future. They want Americans to stay angry because that is the fuel of Trumpism. That is how Donald Trump keeps his power.

My constituents, my constituents reject this administration’s cycle of chaos, corruption and cynicism. Delawareans sent me here to make government work better for people, not to make it worse. Delawareans want a government that respects everyone by delivering for them, by helping them learn live and thrive. And that is what I’m here to do.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I yield back the balance of my time.

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