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Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) unleashed on the GOP for pandering to tech "broligarchs" and using immigration as a smokescreen to distract from President Trump's actions since he took the oath of office Monday.
In his statement during Wednesday's hearing on immigration enforcement, Raskin slammed the House GOP for enabling Trump's stunts by promoting "tiny little messaging bills" that accomplished nothing.
Raskin began, "All these fine speeches and all these fancy parties with billionaires and congressmen in tuxedos, all these executive orders for big oil and the tech 'broligarchs,' and these pardons for Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and violent extremists who chanted, 'Hang Mike Pence!' and smashed and wounded our police officers in this building with steel poles, baseball bats and confederate flags. All this sound and fury on day one and week one, but nothing to bring down grocery prices or nothing to bring down the cost of rent as they promised, nothing to improve our health care system or build on our success in the last Congress in reducing prescription drug prices, nothing to get health insurance coverage for millions of people who don't have it, nothing to bring down the cost of housing or build new housing, nothing to combat the nightmare of climate change other than the full-scale retreat of withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, nothing to address the real problems faced by the American people."
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Raskin then addressed the matter at hand, having to do with immigration enforcement.
"So, today they want to change the subject from the indelible and shocking public safety disaster of the president releasing hundreds of convicted felons, specifically violent cop-beating felons caught on tape in the act whom he incited January 6, 2021, back into the population with no plan for protecting the American people or the public safety. So, what do they want to talk about today in their wisdom? Public safety and immigration!"
Raskin went on to describe Republican-backed bills proposed to solve the immigration problem, "tiny little messaging bills that move a few words around, but don't fundamentally change anything."
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