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Jasmine Crockett: “The top earners are the ones that benefited the most from…”

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

Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett discusses dismantling the U.S. Dept. of Education and DOGE.

Published March 21, 2025 | Video Starts at 18:09

Those are the only people that really benefited. I'm not going to say they're the only ones that benefited from 2017, but the top earners is how I will phrase it. The top earners are the ones that benefited the most from the 2017 tax cuts. And now they want to basically give them even bigger benefits, is the way that I would characterize it. Because what we're doing is there's 4.5 trillion. Yes. (18:09–18:16)

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Asserts that the 2017 tax cuts primarily benefited top earners.

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“No president, this one Joe Biden or any other, would have ever had the ability to, with the swipe of their pen, decide that they were going…”
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“He [Governor Abbott] was one of the few states that decided to do that [not engage in obtaining federal funds for summer meals].”
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“We know that prior to him even signing off on this, when they finally did nominate the wrestling CEO to become the secretary, she was tasked…”
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“She decided that she was going to get rid of 50% of the people that work for the Department of Education.”
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“I'm not very concerned about them being able to shut down the Department of Education legally the lawful way, because of the filibuster in…”
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“Any child that is on the school lunch program, whether it's reduced or free lunch that comes through the Department of Education.”
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“Anyone who has ever sent their kiddo off to school, and they weren't independently wealthy, they most likely filled out the FAFSA that is…”
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“I sat in a committee hearing, in a hearing that ended up going viral where literally I mentioned that his name was mentioned 312 times in…”
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“Project 2025 [includes plans to] shut down the Department of Education.”
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“Governor Abbott decided kids in Texas should go hungry [by not engaging in getting federal funds for summer meals].”
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“There were kids that were missing out on monies that they could have had [from the federal government].”
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“We haven't lost any child's life because of [trans kids playing sports].”
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“We do have a real issue around guns in our schools.”
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“We do have a real issue around hunger in our schools.”
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“This administration has continually messed up and they are what, 60 days in, not even that yet.”
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“Every time that Donald Trump and this administration has been challenged, we have won in court.”
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“There are people that ended up on those planes that they're saying they didn't have a criminal record at all.”
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“I fully anticipate there's going to be lawsuits because of what they [the administration] did.”
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“The House budget resolution that passed was all about determining where these cuts were going to come from.”
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“The budget office told us where [the cuts] would come from.”
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“They said from Energy and Commerce, which is one of our committees, they said you have to find 880.”
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“They said find $240 billion somewhere within agriculture. The only place that you can pull it from is from SNAP benefits.”
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“The chair of the budget committee in the House said, this is a good start, but we are going after Social Security next.”
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“They cut approximately... there was money for the burn pits. They did not include that money in this continuum resolution.”
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“Department of Defense ended up with more money.”
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“Department of Defense... has not been able to pass a clean audit in the last six or seven audits.”
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“We won't have the money for at least 32,000 existent housing vouchers.”
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“He actually did campaign on tariffs.”
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“The markets have been crashing out. 401ks are obviously taking a dip right now.”
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“Cost overall, since he's sworn into office, have kind of crept up.”
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“The inflation rate has actually crept up as well.”
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“The Infrastructure act did [bring manufacturing back].”
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“The Chips and Science act was doing [bringing manufacturing back].”
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“He's trying to gut the funding under both of those bills.”
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“Ohio [is] getting a new chips manufacturing site.”
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“We ended up benefiting and getting a new chips manufacturing site here in Texas.”
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“The vast majority of our chips in the world, if there's one place that we get them from, is Taiwan.”
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“We have the largest wind farms in the entire country right here in Texas.”
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“The world has historically relied on us to lead.”
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