On the recordSeptember 29, 2023
I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I remind the gentleman from Arizona that there will be 63,000 households in Arizona that will be without the low-income energy assistance benefits. These are not just numbers. These are people, and we are making their lives more difficult at a time when there is serious inflation and when there is, in fact, a high cost of living. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle are only adding and increasing to that high cost of living. I might also remind the gentleman from Arizona that we are looking at about 2,800 teachers. Now, again, these are not just numbers. Children go to school. If there is no teacher to teach them, what is the result? What happens to parents when they find out that their child's teacher is gone? If there was a teaching shortage before, this will make it even worse. That is the result of the cuts that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to make. It is there. It is in black and white. You can't make up the numbers. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Michigan (Ms. Tlaib).
