'America Will Be Alone Without Allies': Rosa DeLauro Warns Against Cuts In Rescissions Bill

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In House floor remarks on Thursday, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) spoke about the rescissions bill.

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00:00I remain strongly opposed to this rescissions bill, which is a rubber stamp on the Trump

00:05administration stealing, stealing from the American people.

00:09Since taking office, the Trump administration has stolen funds appropriated by the Congress,

00:14passed by Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate, and signed into law by the

00:20President of the United States, upending the separation of powers and our constitutional

00:26order.

00:27This rescissions bill is another effort to subvert the Congress's power of the purse.

00:34That is precisely what they are trying to do.

00:36And for what ends?

00:38To hand billionaires and the biggest corporations, who already pay little or no taxes, a massive

00:45tax break.

00:47And ultimately, to embrace privatization, to give the biggest companies unchecked power,

00:53to rig the economy against the middle class, the working class, and vulnerable people,

00:59and ensure the American people have no faith in their government.

01:04This bill, this bill will shut down rural television and radio stations, cutting off coverage of

01:10local news, eliminating emergency information like severe weather alerts, jeopardizing access

01:17to PBS kids' children's programs like Sesame Street, yes, Sesame Street.

01:23This bill rips life-saving support away from hungry, displaced, and sick people in developing

01:29countries and conflict zones, and will end programs that prevent conflict and pandemics.

01:37This bill abandons the people of Ukraine while they resist Putin's tyranny.

01:43This bill puts America last.

01:46When we retreat from the world, diplomatically, and through our assistance to vulnerable people,

01:52America will be alone, without allies, in a less stable world, without the support of

01:59the international community.

02:01And do you know who will come out ahead?

02:04China, Russia, Iran.

02:07And all of this is being done in the name of combating waste.

02:11I will tell you what waste is.

02:14500 tons of food grown by American farmers, destroyed at a cost of $130,000 to American taxpayers

02:22because of the chaos caused by dismantling of USAID, and it was left there to expire.

02:31This is a bill to help Republicans claim that they are practicing fiscal responsibility while

02:37concealing that what they are doing is ripping health insurance away from at least 17 million

02:44Americans in order to make billionaires even more rich, and they increase the debt by $4 trillion.

02:52How dare they talk about the deficit when they have just increased it?

02:57They are not addressing the cost of living in this country, the single biggest issue.

03:01They are making it worse.

03:03This bill codifies the right of the Trump administration to steal from vulnerable American communities—

03:08The gentlelady's time has expired.

03:09I yield to gentlelady 30 seconds.

03:11Conditional 30 seconds.

03:13Vulnerable American communities, children and the global poor, for the sake of handing even

03:16more money to billionaires.

03:18Needs to reassert its role, fight for the middle class, working class, the vulnerable, not to

03:24protect the interests of billionaires and big corporations.

03:27I strongly oppose this bill.

03:29It forfeits our global leadership, undermines our national security, steals from the American

03:33people.

03:34I urge my colleagues to vote no and yield back.

03:35Gentlelady yields back.

03:36Gentleman from Massachusetts.

03:39Speaker 7

03:42Speaker 8

03:45Speaker 6

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