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Glenn Grothman: “Stop penalizing the nuclear family.”

Featuring: Glenn Grothman, Republican | U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin, District 6

Congressional Address by Mr. Grothman on DEI, Immigration, and Economic Policies

Published April 17, 2025 | Video Starts at 22:14

So I'd like to thank the chair for paying rapt attention to all of the comments I have made here tonight. And I hope my colleagues, as they put together the big beautiful bill, take them to heart, Stop penalizing the nuclear family. Start treating manufacturing especially the way it should be, crack down on special tax provisions that benefit the very wealthy. Thank you very much, gentlemen. Yields back. (22:14–22:18)

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Claims that current policies penalize the nuclear family and suggests changes are needed.

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“It would not be unusual in which people who have a mother and father at home are penalized over $20,000 a year if they get married.”
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“DEI, or affirmative action, has been a big part of America's landscape over the last 60 years.”
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“President Trump can do what he can to wipe out this odious philosophy [DEI].”
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“DEI is based on the premise that what you accomplish in this country or what you should be given is based on your ancestry or your gender.”
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“Herbert Marcus in the early 70s... thought we can destroy America by dividing it by ethnic group or dividing it by gender.”
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“President Trump is trying to enforce the law [on immigration].”
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“850,000 over the last three years is the most people that we have taken in, as far as I can tell, in this country's history.”
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“When I was growing up, the number of naturalized people every year was about 200,000. We're now over four times that amount.”
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“Obviously, if we are going to enforce the law, we have to remove the people who came here by pretending they needed asylum and didn't.”
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“The prior administration, with a lot of encouragement from people on the other side of the aisle, were bringing people here who were coming…”
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“There are Section 42 tax credit housing, which is a screwed up program for many reasons, but that it's aimed at lower income people.”
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“Programs in our current budget are programs designed to destroy the nuclear family.”
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“We are educating our young people to adapt a transgender lifestyle.”
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“In Europe, when they backed off on pushing this [transgender] lifestyle, the lifestyle not exclusively, but largely disappeared.”
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“A $700 per person in this country subsidy of the semiconductor industry is unnecessary.”
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“Under the carried interest loophole... people are taxed at capital gains rates rather than regular rates.”
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“President Trump has floated the idea of having a lower tax rate for manufacturing than other industries.”
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“The way to do that is a lower tax rate for manufactured items.”
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