‘Another Exercise In Futility’: Lori Trahan Drops The Hammer On GOP Legislation

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During a press briefing on Wednesday, Rep. Lori Trahan (D-MA) decried Republicans’ legislative priorities.

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00:00 Thank you, Chair Dingell, and thank you, Chair Aguilar and Vice Chair Liu, for hosting us.

00:06 I think my colleagues have said it already, but House Republicans have proven time and

00:11 again that the only thing that can unite their fractured Republican conference is bringing

00:16 messaging bills that have no chance of becoming law to the floor.

00:20 Earlier this month, Speaker Johnson announced Appliance Week, where instead of passing legislation

00:24 to protect women's reproductive rights, House Republicans voted to defend stoves and refrigerators

00:30 that no one tried to take away.

00:33 They followed that up by unveiling a list of bills to align with Police Week.

00:37 But rather than pass legislation to increase funding for the COPS program, the most important

00:42 federal program that local departments rely on, House Republicans passed toothless resolutions

00:49 designed to score chief political points.

00:51 And this week, it's more of the same.

00:54 House Republicans unveiling a farm bill that cuts $30 billion from food assistance programs,

01:00 including the largest cuts to SNAP in three decades, that the most vulnerable families

01:05 in our nation need to put food on their table.

01:08 This is a dangerous proposal, and the fact is it has no chance of becoming law.

01:13 It's just another exercise in futility.

01:16 House Democrats are ready to work with our colleagues across the aisle to find compromise

01:21 on legislation that will improve the lives of hardworking families, just as we did last

01:26 Congress when we passed the bipartisan infrastructure law to rebuild our roads and bridges and create

01:31 jobs, the Bipartisanship and Science Act to reinvest in American manufacturing, the Bipartisan

01:37 Safer Communities Act to rein in gun violence, and the Bipartisan PACT Act, which as of this

01:44 week you've heard has approved more than one million claims for assistance from veterans

01:48 across our country who were exposed to burn pits and toxic chemicals during their service.

01:54 We should be looking to build on that progress, but House Republicans are taking their marching

02:00 orders from Donald Trump, who opposes anything that could help President Biden in an election

02:05 year.

02:06 That's politics at its worst.

02:07 It's exactly what people hate about Washington.

02:11 It's why Democrats are taking our message, our commitment to putting people over politics

02:17 directly to voters.

02:19 And we'll do that when we're home next week, and we'll keep doing it every single

02:23 week between now and November.

02:25 Thank you.

02:25 [BLANK_AUDIO]

‘Another Exercise In Futility’: Lori Trahan Drops The Hammer On GOP Legislation

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