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Your money is being wasted, and the Department of Government Efficiency is going to fix that.
It is so important for the American people to understand and hear that this idea of a citizenship question would undercount people, would result in fewer Federal resources come into places like Texas.
What I do not get is in the Federal Government's nearly $1 trillion in assistance... why my Republican colleagues would want states like Texas to get less help because of adding an unnecessary question.
I could not disagree more with this really kind-of wild Republican idea of the so-called 'Equal Representation Act,' which would only count certain in this country in complete violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
We are elected to represent the people regardless of their citizenship, and we have to help them because they reside in our districts.
So, again, Republicans are really good about using Black and Brown bodies.
But here is the reality. The numbers show that in rural Texas, they were constantly bleeding population. Urban Texas was growing exponentially.
Texas got two new seats, so they took those Black and Brown and Asian bodies, and guess what? Do you think that we got a new Black, Brown, or Asian seat? Somehow the way that they do their Republican math in the state of Texas, that…
We know that there was a significant undercount specifically in Texas.
When you are counting people, you are not just counting voters. You count children, don't you?
They are going to deport everyone that is here and is not a citizen. They are planning to do mass deportations.
We need a course on what the Census is for because we have people sitting in Congress and have no idea what the Census is for.
It is chilling that the President did not even know and was not seemingly aware of the impact of this pause.
We are not where--we are not in a situation where we can go completely renewable.
It is really remarkable that you made that claim.
I think that was misguided. I think it was a big mistake.
I think that is just a very short-sighted and misguided policy.