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Jasmine Crockett Reams Republicans To Their Faces: 'They Don't Want To Fix This!'
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6/12/2025
At today's House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) slammed Republicans.
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Mr. Chair, and thank you so much to our governors, and I want to say I apologize.
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I apologize for the abuse that you are facing in this committee that is supposed to be about
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waste, fraud, and abuse, and I also apologize for wasting your time because this is nothing
00:16
more than political theater.
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Now, again, this committee is supposed to be about waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:21
We did not have to have this full creation of DOGE.
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The committee itself, that is our job.
00:27
So what I want to talk about is something that the American people may want to know,
00:31
which is economically, how is this impacting them, these failed immigration policies that
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are only put on so that they can have a show because we have a reality show president who
00:42
seemingly still believes that this is all about TV instead of real lives.
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So let me talk about something really quickly because I want to clarify something because
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I believe that all of you understand the importance of something like tourism.
00:56
Are you aware, any of you, are you aware as to whether or not tourism in the United States
01:01
is anticipated to decrease to the extent that we are estimated to lose $12.5 billion in international
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vendor spending in just the year 2025?
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I can answer as the tourism capital of the country.
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I assume you could.
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Tourism is already down.
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It is down in the North Country where the Canadians refuse to come over because of the hostility
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toward their country.
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It's happening in New York City.
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It's happening in our sporting venture, our theater.
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There is a ripple effect throughout our entire economy because of the change in attitude that
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our country that once welcomed people from all over the world to visit and recreate and to live here
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now feels like a very hostile place to them.
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It is going to have an economic impact on our bottom line without a doubt.
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So let's talk about it a little bit more.
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So I am supposed to have a number of FIFA games in Dallas, and I am fully anticipating that we are going
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to have a problem because I've been receiving phone calls that people don't feel safe coming here.
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And it's not the immigrants.
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It's this government that is making them feel unsafe.
02:05
But let me also do this because they love to cherry pick.
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They can find, you know, any one person that has been killed.
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And if they've been killed by an immigrant, then God darn it, every single immigrant is going out
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and they are killers.
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And that is the problem.
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But they don't want to talk about white supremacy.
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I don't know how many hearings we going to have about the fact that there's been this one immigrant
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that killed this one person.
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And no, I'm not excusing any killings by them or white supremacists.
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But they haven't had these hearings.
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We didn't have a hearing on Buffalo and what happened there.
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We didn't have a hearing on El Paso and what happened there.
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We didn't have a hearing on Charleston and what happened there.
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So it's interesting that they pick and choose because it seems like they love to pal around
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with the white supremacists.
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And so they don't want to talk about certain other things.
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But economically, I want to make sure that we're making this point again, because I know
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that Governor Pritzker, you are the beneficiary of a lot of things from the state of
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Texas.
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And a lot of people believe that Republicans are fiscally responsible, but instead they
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are actually fiscally irresponsible because what he spent was a whopping $221 million
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transporting people from Texas to your state.
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Something tells me that he could have done something else with that $221 million.
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In addition to that, I know that there's been some conversations about what's going on in
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L.A.
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And they want to say that it's riots because they didn't want people to keep talking about,
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say, the Epstein files or whatever other drama was popping off between the president
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and his little friend.
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So they wanted to change the conversation to immigration because they feel like, well, the
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polling is in our benefit.
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But let me tell you something.
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If they cared about making sure we were going to be fiscally responsible, they would tell
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the American people that it cost them $134 million to send the National Guard to L.A.
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for the quote-unquote riots that the governor didn't ask for, nor did the mayor of L.A.
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ask for.
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And they sent them over there and they say that they care about our service members, yet they
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sent them and they were laying on the floor.
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They did not provide for food.
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So I don't know why we would believe that, number one, they want to fix this.
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They don't want to fix this because the brokenness is a feature, not a flaw, of the system because
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it is beneficial to them when it comes to campaigning.
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If they can't stoke fear, then why are they going to, say, have anybody vote for them?
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Because that's what people are doing.
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They're voting out of fear.
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But, Ms. Perryman, we know each other a little well.
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So, and I know you got a law degree, and it seems like we all need law degrees in here
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nowadays to understand the Constitution.
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So, really briefly, I just want to make this point.
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There is a certain person that was afforded, say, due process.
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But let's say if, say, Donald Trump had been charged with all of these cases that he got
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charged with in four different jurisdictions, if he wasn't afforded due process, there could
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have been a possibility that he just would have been locked up and thrown somewhere, right?
05:02
That would be a possibility.
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And then maybe we wouldn't have a tariff war or anything else that we're dealing with
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or all the other nonsense.
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But the point is, he was afforded due process.
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And regardless of the political opposition, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, I
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thought, believe that due process should be afforded to everybody, even him.
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Due process is for everyone.
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Okay.
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So, the Fifth Amendment doesn't say that it's just for the people that are Americans?
05:29
It does not.
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It says anybody on our soil?
05:31
It's for everyone.
05:32
Okay, it's pretty simple.
05:34
I don't know why we are having...
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