Gwen Moore

I am very alarmed at this increasingly lawless action of the Trump administration.

No, 78 million people did not vote for this. Who do you think you are fooling? They are not fooled by your notion that somehow these tax cuts are going to pay for themselves, that they are backed up by all kinds of economists, the CBO, the…

He too had no idea what DOGE employees, what authority they had.

I thought it was very -- I told him there was some consolation that he felt concerned about these things, too.

I wanted to ask him, who are these people? What were their security clearances? What information did they take?

What authority did they have to do it?

Why do these people have access to my Social Security number, to my bank account?

We want to protect moms from domestic violence acts, as homicide is the leading cause of death of pregnant women. Mr. Speaker, at the appropriate time, I will offer a motion to recommit so we can fix this bill. Mr. Speaker, I thank the…

Just let me thank you. You are that same cheerleader who fought to integrate the cheerleading team, but once you got on the team, you were a team player. The thing that I love about you so much is that, even with how competitive this place…

I will because I need to ask you about a couple more things. I will return to the mic.

I certainly appreciate the perspective that in pointing out the need to listen to those with lived experience...

I once read the CBO report, that within a window of a 10-year budget window, we could see a $1 trillion increase minimum if we were to have some sort of immigration reform.

I propose restoring all those benefits and still extending the life of Social Security by 24 years.

It is not fair to come to the table and say to people the only way that we can fix it is to cut benefits by 25 percent.

Do we see instances where there are barriers to applying to unemployment?

We think it's very, very important if we don't make these provisions permanent, it will be a big tax increase on the middle class.

The money that we call taxpayers money that we return in the way of tax cuts is not the government's money, it's their money.

I don't have unlimited time. I'm just a Ranking Member here, but I just need to make one last point, Mr. Chairman, and that is that I think that we just need to work further to make sure that there's a connection between enriching the…

I think we're going to see a lot of immigration to this area because these Great Lakes are a great, hidden secret.

I think that families and kids need, particularly since we have such a stingy Child Tax Credit.

There is millions of dollars left on the table that families and kids need.

And it incentivized them to work. Ms. DeLAURO. That is right. It is because they wanted to denigrate working folks. They say these corporations and these folks are the richest one-tenth of 1 percent who cut coupons, that is the work. They…

For childcare. Ms. DeLAURO. Childcare was one of the biggest issues, because then it allowed people to go to work.

As you mentioned, I had a proposal, a compromise. Ms. DeLAURO. Your amendment. Go for it.

We pushed more kids into poverty. Ms. DeLAURO. That is right. The kids have gone back into poverty, and it is preventable, as you pointed out. This is preventable poverty. We know the answer and we have refused to take that answer and move…