Cedric Richmond: “If we enacted that budget, as presented to us, would Americans be more or less safe?”

We’re going to keep our head down. We’re going to keep focused on the American people, not politicians, and we’re going to deliver for the American people.

We want to invest in changing and addressing climate change, because we know these storms are getting stronger and more frequent, and the devastation is getting worse.

We can’t afford not to address climate change.

We have to communicate that under President Biden, we reduce Black child poverty by 50 percent, that Black unemployment is the all-time low, Black business startup is an all-time high, Black wealth is up 60 percent.