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Jasmine Crockett: “There's literally no staff. And because we're in a shutdown…”

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

Rep. Jasmine Crockett Breaks Down the Shutdown: What It Means for You and Your Family

Published October 15, 2025 | Video Starts at 36:29

And I just assumed that all the staff would be on the payroll until she was sworn in and then they didn't swear her in. But nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. There's literally no staff. And because we're in a shutdown, she can't even hire anybody. Like, talk about, like, truly harming the constituents of this district itself, especially at this time. It is absolutely insane. (36:29–36:35)

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Asserts that Adelita Grijalva has no staff due to a government shutdown, preventing her from hiring.

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“Republicans slash $1 trillion from health programs.”
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“The Kaiser Family Foundation has said costs are going to go up by 114%.”
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“A 60-year-old couple in Texas, earning $82,800 a year, will likely see their annual health care premiums increase by $17,465, or roughly…”
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“The Department of Education is going to be furloughing roughly 95% of its staff.”
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“Every year, Congress is supposed to pass 12 separate spending bills.”
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“If Congress doesn't agree on that budget by the deadline, the government doesn't have the legal authority to spend money.”
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“This shutdown was completely avoidable. Republicans control the House, the Senate, and unfortunately, the White House.”
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“We didn't have not a single government shutdown under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”
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“This president has already had four shutdowns under his belt.”
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“Here in Texas, there's more than 130,000 federal employees, air traffic controllers, TSA officers, VA workers.”
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“We have passed approximately three of the 12 budget bills out of the House.”
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“Nothing has passed the House and the Senate and made it to President Trump's desk.”
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“Roughly 807,000 Texans were on WIC this past year, with Dallas being one of the largest service areas.”
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“41,400 people are eligible for WIC [in our district].”
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“WIC was operating off of $150 million emergency reserve fund to keep the program going while Republicans refused to act and address the…”
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“Another 300 million was going to be put into the WIC fund.”
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“The Agriculture Department staff have stated that this additional $300 million is now expected to keep WIC afloat for the rest of October.”
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“I co-sponsored legislation to transform WIC into a mandatory program.”
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“SNAP would be funded all the way through the end of October, including during a shutdown.”
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“2.3 million SNAP recipients and their families [will] lose their benefits.”
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“In Texas, 30, 13,000 adults are at risk of completely losing their SNAP assistance.”
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“27,000 households will lose at least some amount of their SNAP assistance [in Texas].”
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“Roughly 10 million folks are going to lose access to their health insurance.”
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“Folks save an average of $705 annually from healthcare costs last year [due to tax credits].”
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“When they took the $1 trillion out of the healthcare ecosystem, that messed all of us up.”
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“Based on independent reports, we know healthcare premiums are going to skyrocket next year if these tax credits don't get extended.”
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“In our district, we're expecting that 90,000 people will see their health care costs go up.”
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“For a family of four earning $64,000 a year, the annual health care premiums are likely to increase by $2,571, roughly 197%.”
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“VA benefits, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security are funded through separate mechanisms outside of this discretionary appropriations…”
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“If you are receiving VA benefits, you'll still be able to get them, but you may see a little delay because some of the staff may have been…”
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“If you are enrolled in Medicaid and Medicare or receive disability assistance, you shouldn't see any disruption and should continue…”
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“The Department of Education has been under siege, as has kind of the vast majority of our agencies in general.”
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“ICE has been expanded, but most agencies have been truly targeted.”
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“The Department of Education specifically has been on the receiving end of a lot of the hate coming from this administration.”
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“This president has made it clear that he actually wants to shut down the Department of Education.”
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“The department also gutted the office that oversaw special education and civil rights.”
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“Schools and educators who are already struggling to recruit, train and provide students with disabilities the resources that they need are…”
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“The department will not be processing any grant applications for schools and after school programs which many of our education settings…”
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“Once the Senate passed what we pass out of the House, and I shouldn't say we with they pass out of the House, then we would come back.”
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“We could be working on the appropriations bills because again, this is just a stopgap until we finish our homework, which they have done…”
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“It's been a hostile work environment ever since this administration took over.”
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“He has no interest in serving his constituents.”
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“They did a little funny business on the lines here recently.”
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“Her constituents in Georgia, including her children, are going to struggle.”
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“The vast majority of those immigrants that have come to our country have come and they have contributed and they have not caused harm.”
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“They have refused to turn anything else over under the subpoena that was issued by oversight.”
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“Hopefully we will get Rep. Elect Grijalva sworn in, get that 218 signature and get a subpoena that or get a vote on getting a subpoena that…”
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“I don't know that they really highlighted that there is an individual that purchased Dominion Voting machines.”
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“It has been made clear that the Republicans have decided they are going to cheat by any means necessary.”
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“North Carolina, as soon as they got Republicans on that Supreme Court, decided to change the map.”
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“They changed it to 10, four. They took three seats that most likely would have stayed Democratic seats.”
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“The difference in the Democrats having the House right now was three seats. North Carolina took them.”
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“The Supreme Court is rehearing this case as it relates to what we call section 2 voting rights.”
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“We added a seat in Louisiana under section 2, which basically is an assurance of our constitutional rights.”
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“30% of the state of Louisiana was African American, yet African Americans were not allowed to elect anywhere near 30% of their…”
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“They were the ones that ruled that, yes, there needs to be a Section 2 seat.”
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“I think the 25th Amendment is ripe right now for a number of reasons.”
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“They said this was his annual physical. Annual implies once a year. He's already had a physical this year.”
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“He didn't see [January 6] as an insurrection. And in fact, he went on his ugly little website and posted in the middle of the night a whole…”
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“There is speculation that he's had some sort of cardiac incident, and that is why he had to go to Walter Reed, because he needed imaging.”
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“There are concerns about his aspirin regiment regimen, because what they're claiming they're doing it for is not actually how they use…”
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“They still haven't told us where he disappeared to during. Was that Labor Day? I think around Labor Day, something like that. He completely…”
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