Secondly, Schakowsky asked, "Why does your budget resolution take away the Medicare guarantee?" and then quoted Leviticus 19:32, "You shall give due honor and respect to the elderly."

She said Republicans failed to live up to that passage by proposing $810 billion in cuts to Medicaid over the next decade.

Thirdly, she asked, "Why does your budget resolution increase defense spending while cutting investments in our children and families?" Here, she relied on Proverbs 16:11, "A just balance and scales are the Lord's." [...]

And last, she asked, "Why does your budget resolution take away food from the poor?" To back up this question, she quoted 1 John 3:17 18, which states, "If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth."