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Jasmine Crockett: “We averaged it out based upon how many people actually work…”

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

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Jasmine Crockett Discusses Democratic Strategies and Budget Concerns at Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 04:41

It was some millions though, for sure, of dollars into ICE specifically for them to get bonuses. And when we averaged out this amount of money that they were putting into ice, We averaged it out based upon how many people actually work for ICE... it would amount to approximately $42,000 worth of a bonus for every single person at ICE. And when we were having this debate in this markup in Judiciary about that, I pointed out that the lowest paid person on the Hill, who had actually probably been … (04:41–04:54)

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Asserts that ICE employees could receive an average bonus of $42,000.

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