Ilhan Omar Warns Of ‘Severe Repercussions On Education Funding’ With Passage Of Budget Resolution

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During a town hall event on Monday, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) spoke about the possible effects of passing the budget resolution.

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00:00We'll do the white, mask, blue.

00:17What I would like to really see is a pledge from the Democrats.

00:23They will always have a primary, and they will not have any superdelegates who put their thumb on the scale.

00:28Because every time they have, they've lost.

00:31They have to have pure de-Democrats on the primaries.

00:37That's the only way we're going to fix this.

00:39Because the Democratic Party has been weak on supporting workers and labor for a long time.

00:45When OSHA was created, there was one inspector for about every two to four factories.

00:50What the ratio is now?

00:51About one for 200.

00:53You're lucky to get a two-hour inspection every three years.

00:55They lost disgust years ago.

00:58And that's just kind of across the board.

01:00Who put up a fight?

01:01Who closed it?

01:03Yeah!

01:05And then we'll see the young man on the edge.

01:09Hi, the Yale Youth Survey poll shows that among youth, 18 to 21-year-olds favor the Republican

01:24candidate over the Democratic candidate on a generic ballot by 11 points.

01:29The Democratic brand has become toxic among young people.

01:33What are you doing to combat this, and what ideas do you have for us to win back young people?

01:37I'm trying to find who's the youngest until this week.

01:56And I guess it's me!

01:58I guess I'll just speak here as the millennial on this stage.

02:06Yeah, I'm still a millennial, and that makes me, you know, for our millennials.

02:10There's a lot of millennials on this stage.

02:13And part of that is because we live our authentic truths as Democrats,

02:16and we bring that to the table, and we don't worry about, like,

02:18oh, this is what the poll-tested message says about the flirty of the school.

02:23We say, you know what's wrong that people are trying to tell me how to, like,

02:26do my own health care decisions.

02:28It's wrong that there isn't a flirty funded public school in my neighborhood.

02:31And I don't worry about what the, like, cool thing to do is.

02:33I just say, this is what my community should look like.

02:36This is what we all want Northeast Minneapolis and Southeast Como to look like

02:40in a broader world where we have this.

02:42And standing up to each other and saying,

02:45hey, I think this is where we need to go as a party.

02:48And where I think we need to go as a party is a human-centered party

02:51where we can be real with each other and say,

02:54that's wrong and that's right, and we're going to do what's right.

02:57I mean, I don't think that's a great way.

02:59Ooh, why don't we just tick and talk our way to the top?

03:01Well, no, we're going to just do what matters,

03:04and we're going to stand up for our neighbors.

03:10And I think, I think, to the question of the primaries,

03:12none of us are a party to what the DNC decides,

03:16but as somebody who's been primary, every cycle, I support primaries.

03:20But I don't think people should be in place of primaries.

03:24It's good for democracy.

03:32Okay, she had, there is glasses and blue shirt.

03:40Hi, my name is Laura, and I'm a teacher at Cosmos Montessori School,

03:58a chartered public school serving grades preschool through fifth grade.

04:01And we're actually located in the same building as your office.

04:05It's not a community center.

04:08I visited them.

04:10Yes, you have.

04:11My chartered public school is providing dual-language Montessori programming,

04:15and we're doing it with limited funding,

04:18as chartered public schools receive roughly 70% of what traditional district schools receive.

04:24So my question is, do you have any insight on the likelihood of cuts to federal funding,

04:29such as title or special education funding,

04:32or advice on how to advocate against these cuts?

04:37You know, so my name is Sydney.

04:49I am the chair of the House Education Committee here in Minnesota.

04:54And the real answer is I'm very concerned about this,

04:58and it will have enormous impacts on our students

05:02who receive special education support the most

05:04if the federal department of education goes away.

05:06So there's a lot of educators in the room.

05:09I see you.

05:10Shout out to all of you.

05:16And you know what this is like in your classroom.

05:19For your special education classrooms,

05:21they're some of the most underfunded.

05:22And that special education funding is coming from the feds.

05:26So the state of Minnesota will not turn our backs

05:29on students receiving special education services

05:32and our most needy students.

05:33But that will mean that we will have to figure out how to close that hole.

05:36And this will impact every student in Minnesota.

05:38So it's something that we are standing up to making.

05:41We are standing up and saying this is wrong.

05:43All students deserve to have a world-class public education.

05:47And what the Republicans are doing

05:49by attacking special education money is wrong.

05:51And it's an attack on all of us,

05:53but it's an attack on our most vulnerable children.

05:55So thank you for standing up to that.

05:57It's wrong and it shouldn't happen.

05:58Thank you, Cindy.

06:02And we're in a month or two.

06:06The budget resolution that we passed,

06:11once it goes through the committees and we vote on it,

06:15has about $230 billion in cuts to education funding.

06:20So it is hard to have clarity about what parts,

06:25but I assume that it's going to have severe repercussions

06:29on education funding when we already have

06:32donor hole in funding here.

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