By Molly Claire Goddard
12:55am PDT, May 16, 2025
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Politicians in Washington, D.C., appear to be exhausted.
In the early morning hours of Wednesday, May 14, three representatives were caught sleeping during a long-running Tax-Writing Ways and Means Committee meeting in which they put together
Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" agenda bill and made cuts to Medicaid.
Keep reading to see which policy makers were caught taking a snooze…
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In
clips from C-Span, Representatives
Blake Moore (R-Utah),
Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) and
Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) were all seen napping during the gathering.
"It's 4:57am ET. There's another vote during the House Ways and Means markup and they have to wake Rep. Blake Moore," one X user commented on the video.
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People on social media were outraged by the display from their representatives.
"TERM LIMITS! Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) OUT COLD asleep while on the job. Do any of you get to sleep while at the office? These people have ZERO CARE for how Americans perceive Congress," Florida Voice News' Eric Daugherty wrote on X.
"Term limits, gaining more and more traction," a second X user chimed in.
"Politicians that still can't do their jobs while only having a 4-day week should be primaried," another added.
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Although Debbie Dingell may have needed some extra sleep, she made sure to drive her point home to her fellow policy makers during their meeting.
"Been up for 31 hours straight fighting Republicans trying to gut Medicaid. Closed my eyes to think about an America where everyone has access to quality, affordable health care," she wrote on X in response to people criticizing her for falling asleep.
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During the hours-long meeting, Democrats and Republicans fought over Donald Trump's budget package which would reportedly cut federal spending to the most vulnerable citizens.
According to
Reuters, the Republican leader's bill would add trillions of dollars to the nation's debt as the plan requests $4 trillion in additional lending.
