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Jasmine Crockett: “We write the laws for the entire country.”

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

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Published December 11, 2023 | Video Starts at 04:27

What do you do? Black congresswoman. Yeah, that's what I Am. No, I'm just kidding with that. No. So my job is to write the laws. We write the laws for the entire country. But beyond that, the biggest thing that we do is we hand out money. We are the ones, and that's what we're not doing right now. (04:27–04:30)

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“The biggest thing that we do is we hand out money.”
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“When everybody's like, oh, the government is about to shut down, what does the shutdown mean? That means that we're about to stop delivering…”
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“I've delivered millions of dollars to my community.”
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“My community is a majority, majority minority district. So almost 80% of my district is black or brown.”
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“Trump...was showing these secret documents to people, and literally, it put us in harm's way, as well as some of our allies.”
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“Trump wasn't the one that said, hey, this is what we need to do for the people. It was the Democratic House, the Democratic Senate, that…”
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“Trump is an actual threat and danger to us, whether it's our democracy.”
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“The President actually has overcome a speaking impediment.”
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“My attorney general is out here telling doctors that he's about to prosecute them if they abide by a court order to save a woman's life.”
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“Right now, doctors are facing up to life in prison in the state of Texas if they have anything to do with abortion, even if it is medically…”
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“We just had to authorize 400 promotions [in the military].”
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“If you don't get promoted, then you're out [of the military].”
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“We would have lost some of our top brass.”
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“We have the authority to send our stores to Ukraine.”
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“A bunch of that money is to replenish our own stores of ammunition right now.”
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“If Putin is successful in Ukraine, then he next most likely goes to maybe Poland.”
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“We have the farm bill. The farm bill is where we get the SNAP benefits from.”
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“Guess who trying to cut the SNAP benefits? Republicans.”
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“They get $6 a day [in SNAP benefits].”
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“Republicans can't get none of them [appropriations bills] passed because the extremists say, we want to cut it all.”
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“They wanted to cut 30% of HUD.”
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“He has been charged for paying his taxes late or filing his taxes late.”
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“The level of secrecy and harm that could be caused by what Biden had...completely different level than...as a president.”
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“Trump was walking up out the White House and literally was like, I'm taking my documents with me.”
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“Hunter Biden being indicted on the nine new tax charges is political.”
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“We've got conflicts in Sudan.”
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“It was my governor that had officers on horses that were whipping [Haitian migrants].”
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“Trump said he could go and shoot somebody in broad daylight and get away with it.”
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“Three out of four of the prosecutors that are going after Trump are black.”
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“George Santos refused to resign. We've had people historically resign for way less.”
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“He was given an opportunity to defend himself. He failed to participate.”
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“They had thousands upon thousands of pages of evidence against him.”
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“Most people don't know $6 a day and the Republicans trying to snatch it.”
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“You want to make sure that housing vouchers aren't available when we're dealing with a housing crisis in this entire country.”
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“Last time we had the House, we had the Senate, and we had the White House.”
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“It was the Senate. The Senate was the problem.”
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“Sinema decided, let me go on and not even try to pretend I'm a Democrat no more.”
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“Her polling is trash.”
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“Ruben Gallego. He about to smash her like that. That is the plan.”
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“Not if y'all let Trump back. Yep, it's over.”
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