Political Quotes

“Listen, if not for lawyers who brought lawsuits, if not for judges who issued injunctions, we would be in a different kind of crisis today. So we are talking about public outrage at an executive action--that was midwived, in part, by the nominee--that only existed for about a day before it was enjoined, before it was stayed. But if that Executive order had actually been fully implemented, there literally would be, today, rural health clinics that would be shut down. There would be hundreds of thousands of children who would not be in preschool tomorrow morning. There would be a national catastrophe. Whether or not these billionaires don't need many government services unless their houses catch on fire and even though they don't understand that people actually rely on government-funded services sometimes, this would have been an absolute nightmare and disaster. (Mr. SHEEHY assumed the Chair.) So we need to remember that while we feel like we are in a constitutional crisis right now, that crisis would be fundamentally different if not for the court's stepping in at this moment. Let me just raise another issue because I think you started by talking about the assumption that the young men in these cubicles made when they were writing Project 2025, when they were implementing these orders. I mean, there is this wild assumption about people who do public jobs.…”