Democratic Congress Member Garcia
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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And tariffs, you know... Do you think the tariffs, the trade war that he's launched against so many countries around the world is a disaster?
There's absolutely going to be provisions that eliminate bad tax policy and replacing it with better tax policy. We did that in 2017. We're going to do it throughout this process. But we're going to eliminate a lot of different loopholes. Will it expand the deficit? It will. The House budget version is much different than the Senate budget version.
And in fact, we are going to expand the growth in the economy. And that's the key. If you look at the revenues coming into our country right now under the current Trump tax cuts that are current policy, current law, GDP towards revenue is 17.2%. If you look at over the last 50 years, it has averaged 17%. We are going to maintain and grow that.
So the three Republican witnesses come to a hearing on industrial policy and none of them mentioned the word tariff, not a single one. And yet all Donald Trump is doing is tariff policy when the three Republican witnesses are recommending a hundred different things other than tariff policy. Mr. Bishop, do you agree with Donald Trump's tariff policy?
You're all saying you're not here as an economic experts and yet you're giving us all these recommendations for how we build an industrial base. Is it that you don't have any expertise that we should just pick up any random citizen or do you have, are you here as some economic expertise on industrial policy?
Yes.
But I don't understand how you don't have it. The president of the United States is saying the way to build manufacturing is to have these tariff policies. You're here to testify on manufacturing, how we're going to build it. You're telling me you don't have an opinion on whether the Trump tariff policy is successful or not?
This is not a theoretical matter. He's implemented tariffs. I'm not even trying to trick you. I'm saying, do you agree with all his tariff policies or do you disagree with them? Or are you so afraid that you don't know what to say?
But I also have to bring up something that one of my colleagues, Representative Khanna, had brought up. It has to do with the terrorist policy. And while advanced manufacturing create jobs, that number of jobs will pale in comparison to to the negative impact of Trump's tariffs. Tariffs are a tax on all consumers. They put the heaviest burden of that tax on middle and working class Americans.
You're shaking your head. One of the witnesses is shaking his head no, but we just went through this and you all conceded that you know nothing about tariffs and have nothing to say about it.
We heard just recently with Congressman Trahan's amendment that we don't need any of these amendments to take our word, that the word has been given that Medicaid is going to be protected, to trust us that no one is going to be affected by this. But as a woman, the word was given to me that my rights would not be taken away by the Supreme Court, and that wasn't true.
As an American, the word was given that our, you know, our First Amendment rights protections would be in place for everyone, including green card holders and people who are lawfully here in this country. That didn't end up to be true.
Thank you. Mr. Chairman, I wanted to Give Mr. Higgins the opportunity because I mentioned him earlier and he wasn't here. He tweeted yesterday that we should arrest 100 more judges. Arrogant elitist black robes have been raping our core principles for a decade. If the DOJ needs a list, I have it.
I'm willing to yield to Mr. Higgins if he could tell us who those 100 judges are and why they should be arrested.
Yeah, we're here, Mr. Swalwell, too. address this amendment and this bill. We're not going to have a back and forth colloquy today. So I'm not going to allow that question. You have four minutes and 30 seconds.
play this clip we're 100 days in to this administration and the president promised he would lower prices on day one donald trump is oh for a hundred he's oh for 100 prices are not going down they're going up The Trump tariff tax is raising prices on the four out of five items in every American's Walmart shopping cart. Your 401ks? They're 201ks. That's the Trump slump.
Americans were anxious about the economy when they voted last November. They wanted their costs to go down. They didn't want the chaos to go up. So what are we doing here? What are we doing here? What in this hearing achieves lowering costs for the American people? You know how far you have deviated from lowering the costs for American people? This is where you are. Today, you will make it easier
to deport more American citizen children with cancer. Think about that. Today's vote will make it easier for the president to deport more American children with cancer. That makes me sick. I have a seven-year-old, a six-year-old and a three-year-old. You don't have to be a parent to understand how cruel this is. That in the last two weeks, a four-year-old was separated from his father, a U.S.
citizen, and deported with his mother while he was suffering stage four cancer and undergoing cancer treatment.
Donald Trump spent the last year and a half questioning the cognitive ability of President Joe Biden, notwithstanding many of the legislative accomplishments that Donald Trump could only wish he got over the finish line.
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