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Jill Tokuda: “Looking to flatline and making some significant policy…”

Featuring: Jill Tokuda, Democratic | U.S. House Hawaii, 2nd Congressional District

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Rep. Jill Tokuda Lahaina Town Hall | FEMA, Flood Relief, Fire Recovery & Federal Updates – April 26

Published | Video Starts at 03:19

… sure that you can keep cool and keep warm for low income households, completely looking to eliminate that. Eliminating a lot of essential Native Hawaiian programs from housing to education, Looking to flatline and making some significant policy changes like actually classifying Native Hawaiians as a racial group. which we know it's a trust responsibility and that allows us to get more money versus if it's deemed as a racial group, then it's going to fall into that DEI category as well, which means funding would be cut there as well. (03:19–03:30)

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