Jasmine Crockett Warns About The GOP-Backed CR: This Piece Of Legislation ‘Does Nothing But Hurt Us’

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During Tuesday's town hall, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) discussed the recently passed continuing resolution.

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00:00Now, I know many of you were like me and didn't know whether or not our government was shut

00:06down last week.

00:07For those of you that may be lost, let me catch you up.

00:11This past Friday, March 14th, marked an important deadline in which Congress needed to pass

00:17legislation in order to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year.

00:22The fiscal year begins on October 1 and ends on September 30th.

00:27While a continuing resolution was passed and our government is quote unquote open, let

00:31me be clear, this Republican partisan piece of legislation does nothing but hurt us.

00:36The bill that passed both the House and Senate essentially provides a blank check to Donald

00:42Trump, Elon Musk, and their Republican cronies to fill their pockets and continue dismantling

00:47the most important parts of our government.

00:50So instead of me just saying that this legislation passed was horrible and will hurt millions

00:55of people, let me put things into reality for you.

00:58The legislation passed by Congress cuts billions of dollars in rental assistance funds that

01:09we provide directly to our neighbors in need, which will place roughly 32,000 families at

01:15risk of being evicted from their homes.

01:17So let me just clarify this because I want you to really conceptualize these numbers.

01:22So as I talked to the Ranking Member of Appropriations, Ranking Member DeLauro, and we were going

01:29over some of the numbers, what you have to understand is that based upon the current

01:33allotment of housing vouchers, they did not allot enough money for at least 32,000 homes

01:42that are currently receiving housing vouchers.

01:45Now this does not account for the increase that we will see in those that need housing

01:50vouchers as people are losing their jobs both in the public sector as well as the private sector.

01:57So what we're saying is that we're not meeting the current needs.

02:00And a Normal Continuum Resolution, or CR, is something that basically keeps funding

02:06levels at the same level until we do our homework, which is to actually go through the 12 Appropriations

02:12Bills where we lay out line by line how these dollars will be spent.

02:17So basically, we passed legislation that was going to increase access to health care based upon those veterans

02:24that were harmed due to their service.

02:27This legislation was passed under the Biden-Harris Administration.

02:31And essentially, the moneys that have been allotted by previous legislation are going to go to those veterans.

02:40$2 billion that goes directly to our families or directly to our cities for improving and repairing bridges,

02:46highways, and roads across our communities.

02:49$482 million in FAA-approved housing vouchers.

02:54And we're not going to go forward with that funding.

02:57And we're going to take that money away from our veterans.

03:00And we're not going to go forward with that funding.

03:04$482 million in FAA Airport Improvement Projects, which at a time when our neighbors are concerned about federal safety

03:16and whether or not they are safe to fly this upcoming spring and summer season, is more than needed.

03:22$75 million for training programs that help our neighbors get jobs after being laid off,

03:29which is at an all-time high, especially with the constant firings across our federal agencies.

03:36And I'll talk more about that a little bit later.

Jasmine Crockett Warns About The GOP-Backed CR: This Piece Of Legislation ‘Does Nothing But Hurt Us’

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