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Ted Lieu Denounces DOJ Assault Charges Against Rep. McIver As ‘Baseless And Politically Motivated’
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5/20/2025
At a House Democratic press briefing on Tuesday, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) slammed charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) for assaulting federal agents during a confrontation outside an immigration detention center in New Jersey.
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Thank you Chairman Aguilar and honored to be joined today by Congress
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members Kim Schreier and Chantal Brown. First I'd like to talk about the
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charges against Congresswoman LaMonica MacGyver. Those charges are baseless
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and politically motivated. Three reasons why. First, Congresswoman MacGyver had a
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statutory authority to be at that detention center. She was conducting her
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oversight duties. Second, if what she did was purportedly so awful that it results
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in criminal charges, how is it possible they literally gave her a tour of the
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facility afterwards? They escorted her around and gave her a tour of that
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facility while she was conducting oversight. And third, she was trying to
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prevent the unlawful arrest of the mayor of Newark. And guess what? She was right
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because the Trump Justice Department dropped all charges against the mayor
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Newark. So we asked them to also drop charges against LaMonica. This is a
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baseless, politically motivated distraction. And what are they
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distracting from? This big ugly bill that they're gonna have a meeting on at 1 a.m.
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in the morning. I mean, who does that? Right? You do that because you don't want
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the American public to know what's in your big ugly bill. But we know what's in it.
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It has the largest cut to health care in U.S. history. About a trillion dollars. It then
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also is going to kick off approximately 14 million people off of health care. And
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why are they doing this? To impose the largest tax cut for billionaires in U.S.
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history. So that's basically what this big ugly bill does. And they're trying to move
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it through in the dead of night at 1 a.m. We asked the Republicans to list American
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people and work on what Democrats are trying to work on, which is lowering the
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costs of rent and groceries and consumer products. That's what we should be focused on.
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And it's now my honor to introduce the great representative from the state of
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Washington, Dr. Kim Schreier.
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