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'I Can't Even Say This Without Laughing': Brandon Gill Grills Dem Witness About 'Birthing People'
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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.
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Thank you, Madam Chair. It never gets boring in here.
00:03
I'd like to say thank you to the witnesses for being here and for taking the time.
00:08
Ms. DeVito, thank you for coming here.
00:11
In your testimony, you said that Americans deserve a government that works for them,
00:17
a government that makes their lives easier and more secure. Is that correct?
00:21
Yes, sir.
00:23
Great. I'd like to read through a couple of the grants that DOGE has pulled back.
00:29
And I'd like to get your take on them.
00:32
They pulled back a $1.5 million NIH grant to Morehouse College.
00:37
It was called the Center to Advance Reproductive Justice and Behavioral Health
00:42
Among Black Pregnant-slash-Postpartum Women and Birthing People.
00:47
Do you think that that makes Americans' lives easier and more secure?
00:52
I think that medical and scientific research of all types...
00:55
Do you think that that constitutes critical research, according to your testimony?
00:59
NIH grants are critical research?
01:01
I think that government research of all types in the medical...
01:05
Including a birthing people?
01:07
I think bench research of all types plays a fundamental role...
01:11
What is a birthing person?
01:13
Sir, I am here to talk about the DOGE impact...
01:16
I'm asking you about this grant and you're defending it.
01:19
So I'm asking you what is... who is birthing people?
01:23
I am not familiar with this grant.
01:27
I take a position that all kinds of government research, medical, pharmaceutical...
01:33
Is a birthing person a woman?
01:34
Is that another word for female?
01:36
That is outside the scope of my expertise.
01:40
Seems like erasure language to me.
01:42
I've been told that that type of vernacular constitutes erasure language.
01:47
How about another one?
01:49
How about the conference gender equity in the mathematical study of commutative algebra?
01:57
Do you think that that's a valid form of government spending?
02:00
I think mathematical research of all types is deserving of government...
02:03
What about studying, and this is directly from the National Science Foundation's website...
02:08
Women and non-binary mathematicians?
02:11
Again, I think all kinds of government investment should be dedicated toward mathematical...
02:16
All kinds of government investment?
02:18
You don't have any kind of limit on what we're spending our money on?
02:21
Just everything?
02:22
Is that your testimony?
02:24
I am talking about DOGE.
02:25
You brought up a grant...
02:26
So am I.
02:27
This is a grant that DOGE cut.
02:30
I am not familiar with this particular grant.
02:32
But I think government investment in mathematical, biological...
02:35
Okay.
02:36
Let's do another one.
02:37
This one is called Hashtag Transcendent Health.
02:42
Adapting an LGB Plus Inclusive Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Transgender Boys.
02:51
I can't even say this without laughing.
02:54
Do you think that that is a useful form of our tax spend?
02:59
I am not familiar with that grant.
03:01
But I think bench research, government investment in scientific and pharmaceutical research...
03:06
In pregnancy for transgender boys.
03:08
Do you think that that is a useful spend of our tax dollars?
03:14
I think government investment in all kinds of scientific research is of the utmost importance.
03:19
Including pregnancy prevention for transgender boys.
03:23
Okay.
03:24
Let me ask you, we can come back to this later maybe.
03:28
Do you support abolishing the filibuster still?
03:31
I am here to talk about DOGE respectfully.
03:35
Right.
03:36
We could abolish the filibuster and get a lot of DOGE cuts through.
03:39
And you've written at length on your Twitter about abolishing the filibuster.
03:44
I am just curious if you think that we should do that still.
03:47
I did a lot of previous work on different topics because I am an economic policy expert.
03:53
And respectfully I am here to talk about DOGE cuts.
03:55
Okay.
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