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J. D. Vance: “The Secretary of Homeland Security put another, I believe…”

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Published September 24, 2025 | Video Starts at 41:46

Sure. What is the administration doing to speed up the distribution of federal aid for that disaster? Yeah. So just in the last week, The Secretary of Homeland Security put another, I believe, $64 million into the disaster relief effort. We inherited, to be honest with you, a FEMA that was mired in bureaucracy and red tape. (41:46–41:52)

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“Some of these people...are ruling over cities that have violent crime rates that are worse than Mogadishu.”
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“We just surged the National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee, again, a Democrat city, a Democrat city in a red state.”
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“If our great police officers find a violent criminal and lock them up, we ought to keep them locked up instead of letting them back on our…”
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“It means pursuing enhanced sentences for violent criminals, like the violent criminal who murdered that poor innocent girl in Charlotte…”
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“You have a violent criminal who has been arrested 14 times, often for very violent offenses, who gets on a bus with an innocent young girl…”
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“Because of soft on crime policies, she was murdered here, not in the war torn country she came from.”
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“In Dallas, Texas, an ICE facility, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, was opened fire upon by a violent left wing extremist.”
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“There was a big bill that was going around and it was basically that we were going to try to eliminate qualified immunity from police…”
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“Some of America's cities today have worse murder rates than the very worst third world cities all over the world.”
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“Some of them have better murder rates than Charlotte, North Carolina.”
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“Law enforcement arrested this guy 14 times.”
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“We believe in free speech in the Trump administration. We are fighting every single day to protect it.”
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