Adelita Grijalva
speaker
182 appearances
15 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 19 Feb
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They had to come.
Someone had to come get me from security.
I cannot get in without going through security.
I mean, there are logistics and real things that come with being sworn in.
And even graciously, the people that are trying to help me get my office up and going, there's so many things that they know I can't do.
He shut down votes early and sent people home a week early to avoid a vote on the Epstein files.
So I do think, you know, more than anything, this was an issue that Trump ran on, right?
Day one, I'm going to release those Epstein files.
Yeah, people were very, I mean, it didn't matter what party, you're like, great, because whoever committed a crime, whoever's implicated needs to deal with legal consequences to that.
And the survivors need to have an opportunity to start to rebuild their lives and put this behind them.
I can't imagine what it feels like to continue to have this issue front and center over and over again.
And it's just like a wound that can't, they can't heal from.
until, you know, there is justice for the victims.
I did not want to be in this congressional limbo, but I do think it gives me an opportunity to fight
for Arizonans and bring up the issues that I was elected to serve on.
Congresswoman-elect Grijalva plans to sign on to a bipartisan petition to force a release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
One last signature is needed to trigger a related House vote, but Grijalva tells NPR she needs to be seated first.
Like, that's not going to happen.
And here we are.
Not so, says Speaker Johnson, who says he'll swear in Grijalva when the government shutdown ends.
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