Yvette Clarke: “The program provides a cost-effective, responsible alternative to expensive and ineffective incarceration, saving…”

As someone who has called Brooklyn home for decades, I know firsthand the challenges that communities like East Flatbush have faced because of years of disinvestment, a shortage of affordable housing, and longstanding health disparities.

This bill is a Trojan horse, using the premise of congressional ethics reform to advance a broader effort to restrict access to the ballot box.

Not since Jim Crow have we seen this level of systematic disenfranchisement of Black voters.

Our victory—while monumental—does not change the truth that this war never should have began, and never would have began, had the president not disgraced America and our laws to ensure that it did.