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Wed May 21, 2025, 07:11 PM May 21

GOP Congressman Caught Sleeping During Hearing On Bill To Kick Millions Off Medicaid [View all]

Source: Huff Post

May 21, 2025, 12:32 PM EDT


Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) once criticized former President Joe Biden’s administration for being “asleep at the wheel,” but was caught quite literally napping himself on Wednesday during a House rules committee hearing on President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”

The legislation could kick millions of people off of Medicaid and curb eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps around 42 million Americans buy food each month, while extending the tax cuts Trump signed into law in 2017. Republicans had set the meeting for 1 a.m., which appeared to be past Norman’s bedtime.

“@RepRalphNorman is ripping health care away from 13 million Americans not exciting enough to stay awake?” Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) wrote on X, formerly Twitter, with an accompanying video showing Norman dozing off during the hearing. Fernández posted the footage at 2:16 a.m., suggesting Norman only made it through a little over an hour before falling asleep. It was the second time in a week that a Republican member of Congress dozed off during a hearing related to Trump’s consequential bill.

“HE DOESN’T CARE,” wrote one user on X in response to the footage, with another person commenting: “If only MAGA cared as much about the middle class as they do billionaires, the world would be a better place.”

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ralph-norman-caught-sleeping-big-beautiful-bill-hearing_n_682dd368e4b09b7e5013882f

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