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On the recordApril 9, 2025
I spent the weekend listening to my constituents, and it damn near broke me. I heard from seniors worried about Musk's attacks on Social Security and Medicaid, small businesses confronting bankruptcy from Trump's tariffs, and parents seeing their college and retirement savings wiped out. I met with teachers worried about students who don't have the resources to weather the hardships so casually inflicted by this White House. I heard from Federal employees who lost their jobs but were more concerned about the veterans and seniors and kids with disabilities they could no longer serve. I met with medical researchers whose work fighting cancer and pandemics had been abandoned by this White House. I heard from veterans stunned that they had been fired for no reason and volunteer firefighters who had lost FEMA funding. I heard from a dry cleaner terrified that her family would be deported, even though they have no criminal records and are legally in this country. I also heard from mental health specialists fighting opioid and fentanyl addiction, whose funding was canceled. My question for House Republicans is: What does it take to get them to stand up for Americans? Mr. Speaker, I yield my time but not my outrage. ____________________
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Mary Gay Scanlon
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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