At Tuesday's House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) grilled Democrats' witness, Emily DiVito, Senior Advisor for Economic Policy at Groundwork Collaborative, about whether she supports the filibuster with Republicans in control of the Senate.
00:00Another one. This one is called Hashtag Transcendent Health, Adapting an LGB Plus Inclusive Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Transgender Boys.
00:14I can't even say this without laughing. Do you think that that is a, you know, useful form of our tax spend?
00:23I am not familiar with that grant, but I think bench research, government investment in scientific and pharmaceuticals.
00:29What do you mean pregnancy for transgender boys? Do you think that that is a useful spend of our tax dollars?
00:37I think government investment in all kinds of scientific research is of the utmost importance.
00:42Including pregnancy prevention for transgender boys. Okay. Let me ask you, we can come back to this later maybe. Do you support abolishing the filibuster still?
00:54I am here to talk about doge respectfully.
00:59Right. We could abolish the filibuster and get a lot of doge cuts through. And you've written at length on your Twitter about abolishing the filibuster. I'm just curious if you think that we should do that still.
01:10I did a lot of previous work on different topics because I am an economic policy expert. And respectfully, I'm here to talk about doge cuts.
01:19Okay. But we could abolish the filibuster and get doge cuts. This is totally germane here. Do you think we should?
01:27I am here to talk about doge cuts. Not strategies for achieving more of them, but the harms that they have produced for working families.
01:34That's a convenient change of opinion. Um, I noticed that most of your, uh, comments about the filibuster were during the Biden administration. Um, but we can, we can move on. Let's go back to some, some more of these grants.
01:49Do you think that, uh, we should be spending money on quote, the racialized basis of trait judgments from faces?
01:56I am not at all familiar with that grant.
02:00It's a $500,000 NSF grant.
02:03Okay. I am not familiar with the subject matter, um, or the particular grant.
02:07But you're, but you're defending these.
02:09I am saying that I think the government has.
02:12You're pretty adamant against doge cuts. And I'm asking you if you support the cuts.
02:16I think that there is.
02:17Doge has found.
02:18Economic and medical public health communal benefit.
02:23What about cross sex, steroid therapy, and cardiovascular risk in the transgender female?
02:29Again, I think government investment in scientific research is important.
