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Jasmine Crockett: “I had to go ahead and reassert that it is Congress that has…”

Featuring: Jasmine Crockett, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 30

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett Discusses Republican Spending Bill and Potential Oversight Role

Published | Video Starts at 01:29

What is Doge doing? And so I had to actually go through and explain that Doge really was supposed to be advisory. That is all it ever was supposed to do. I had to go ahead and reassert that it is Congress that has the power of the purse and that Congress should have been listening to recommendations and then making a final decision. But ultimately, Doge was going in and doing all kinds of random stuff, things that we still don't know the full extent of what it is that they've done without Congress at all, Without Congress. (01:29–01:39)

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Asserts that Congress holds the power of the purse and should make final budgetary decisions.

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