At today's House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) slammed Republicans.
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00:00Mr. Chair, and thank you so much to our governors, and I want to say I apologize.
00:05I apologize for the abuse that you are facing in this committee that is supposed to be about
00:10waste, fraud, and abuse, and I also apologize for wasting your time because this is nothing
00:16more than political theater.
00:18Now, again, this committee is supposed to be about waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:21We did not have to have this full creation of DOGE.
00:24The committee itself, that is our job.
00:27So what I want to talk about is something that the American people may want to know,
00:31which is economically, how is this impacting them, these failed immigration policies that
00:37are only put on so that they can have a show because we have a reality show president who
00:42seemingly still believes that this is all about TV instead of real lives.
00:47So let me talk about something really quickly because I want to clarify something because
00:52I believe that all of you understand the importance of something like tourism.
00:56Are you aware, any of you, are you aware as to whether or not tourism in the United States
01:01is anticipated to decrease to the extent that we are estimated to lose $12.5 billion in international
01:09vendor spending in just the year 2025?
01:12I can answer as the tourism capital of the country.
01:18I assume you could.
01:19Tourism is already down.
01:20It is down in the North Country where the Canadians refuse to come over because of the hostility
01:25toward their country.
01:26It's happening in New York City.
01:28It's happening in our sporting venture, our theater.
01:31There is a ripple effect throughout our entire economy because of the change in attitude that
01:35our country that once welcomed people from all over the world to visit and recreate and to live here
01:41now feels like a very hostile place to them.
01:45It is going to have an economic impact on our bottom line without a doubt.
01:49So let's talk about it a little bit more.
01:50So I am supposed to have a number of FIFA games in Dallas, and I am fully anticipating that we are going
01:55to have a problem because I've been receiving phone calls that people don't feel safe coming here.
01:59And it's not the immigrants.
02:01It's this government that is making them feel unsafe.
02:05But let me also do this because they love to cherry pick.
02:07They can find, you know, any one person that has been killed.
02:11And if they've been killed by an immigrant, then God darn it, every single immigrant is going out
02:16and they are killers.
02:17And that is the problem.
02:18But they don't want to talk about white supremacy.
02:20I don't know how many hearings we going to have about the fact that there's been this one immigrant
02:25that killed this one person.
02:26And no, I'm not excusing any killings by them or white supremacists.
02:30But they haven't had these hearings.
02:31We didn't have a hearing on Buffalo and what happened there.
02:34We didn't have a hearing on El Paso and what happened there.
02:36We didn't have a hearing on Charleston and what happened there.
02:39So it's interesting that they pick and choose because it seems like they love to pal around
02:44with the white supremacists.
02:45And so they don't want to talk about certain other things.
02:47But economically, I want to make sure that we're making this point again, because I know
02:52that Governor Pritzker, you are the beneficiary of a lot of things from the state of
02:56Texas.
02:57And a lot of people believe that Republicans are fiscally responsible, but instead they
03:02are actually fiscally irresponsible because what he spent was a whopping $221 million
03:08transporting people from Texas to your state.
03:12Something tells me that he could have done something else with that $221 million.
03:17In addition to that, I know that there's been some conversations about what's going on in
03:22L.A.
03:23And they want to say that it's riots because they didn't want people to keep talking about,
03:27say, the Epstein files or whatever other drama was popping off between the president
03:32and his little friend.
03:33So they wanted to change the conversation to immigration because they feel like, well, the
03:39polling is in our benefit.
03:40But let me tell you something.
03:42If they cared about making sure we were going to be fiscally responsible, they would tell
03:46the American people that it cost them $134 million to send the National Guard to L.A.
03:53for the quote-unquote riots that the governor didn't ask for, nor did the mayor of L.A.
03:58ask for.
03:59And they sent them over there and they say that they care about our service members, yet they
04:02sent them and they were laying on the floor.
04:05They did not provide for food.
04:06So I don't know why we would believe that, number one, they want to fix this.
04:12They don't want to fix this because the brokenness is a feature, not a flaw, of the system because
04:18it is beneficial to them when it comes to campaigning.
04:22If they can't stoke fear, then why are they going to, say, have anybody vote for them?
04:29Because that's what people are doing.
04:30They're voting out of fear.
04:31But, Ms. Perryman, we know each other a little well.
04:34So, and I know you got a law degree, and it seems like we all need law degrees in here
04:39nowadays to understand the Constitution.
04:41So, really briefly, I just want to make this point.
04:44There is a certain person that was afforded, say, due process.
04:48But let's say if, say, Donald Trump had been charged with all of these cases that he got
04:53charged with in four different jurisdictions, if he wasn't afforded due process, there could
04:59have been a possibility that he just would have been locked up and thrown somewhere, right?
05:02That would be a possibility.
05:03And then maybe we wouldn't have a tariff war or anything else that we're dealing with
05:07or all the other nonsense.
05:08But the point is, he was afforded due process.
05:11And regardless of the political opposition, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, I
05:16thought, believe that due process should be afforded to everybody, even him.
05:21Due process is for everyone.
05:23Okay.
05:23So, the Fifth Amendment doesn't say that it's just for the people that are Americans?
05:29It does not.
05:30It says anybody on our soil?
05:31It's for everyone.
05:32Okay, it's pretty simple.
05:34I don't know why we are having...