Political Quotes

“The United States Constitution defines Tribes in our Nation as sovereign governments with a unique relationship with the United States Federal Government. Many treaties and Supreme Court cases show legal precedent that they are sovereign nations, and the United States has a trust responsibility to ensure they have Social Services like healthcare in exchange for taking their land. The Trump administration is not recognizing the legal right Tribes have. They are solely considering Tribes as a racial group as their justification to impose Medicaid work requirements that we know will disproportionately result in less healthcare for Native Americans. This is wrong, illegal, and a dangerous precedent. What happened to the treaties our government signed? What happened to the Federal trust responsibility? And what other social and legal responsibility will they negate next? I will not stand by and watch the sovereignty of our Nation's first people attacked, and neither should you, Mr. Speaker. ____________________”