Rep. Greg Landsman
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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I would use different language, but I'm from Ohio. Yeah, you don't have to talk like me. I'm in New York. I'm not in New York, but I get it. I feel it. I want somebody... who I know is going to go into a room and say, hey, guys, we have to fucking fix this. And so I don't care, you know, exactly how we do it, but no one's leaving this fucking room until we fix it.
That's, to me, the energy the country needs.
Yeah, I think so. I mean, you know, like, I was at City Hall for five years, and I was known as somebody who just got shit done. Like, I can put people in a room... and hold them in that room until they, you know, people who don't agree on something. So like we did a ton of eviction prevention work, a ton of it. And it has kept tens of thousands of children and families in their homes. We got,
The landlords and the tenant advocates in a room. And for months we were like, you know, look, we're going to keep meeting until we can iron out fixes. And, you know, I think, you know, people find that compelling. It made a big difference. And, you know, more and more children and families are still in their homes because of it. And our eviction numbers are better than most places.
We did it with preschool. We had a vision to say, like, every kid in this city needs quality preschool, two years of quality preschool. We wanted to be the first city in the country to do it. So we brought everyone together, the teachers union and other folks in labor with the business community and the schools. And we passed a ballot. It took us years.
But we passed a ballot measure, and Cincinnati is the only city in the country that provides two years of quality preschool. The list goes on for me in terms of accomplishments based on being a person who cares deeply and who's willing to go in and throw punches until something gets done.
So, yeah, let me start at the end. I do think that there were people on the other side of the aisle that are more conflicted than they were. And I don't know how this is going to end. We don't know because it's now in the Senate and it may come back differently. In fact, it will likely come back differently. And I do think the 26 hours straight of hammering in a very compelling way
didn't change their votes in that first instance. But over time, I still think it's a question. Now, what we did was we started organizing meeting early.
And, you know, Frank Pallone chairs that committee, and he and his staff have been incredible about getting us in a room, working through what we expected to be the policy, and then what we knew would be or talk through what we thought would be the most compelling arguments to make. And that was something we worked on for weeks, if not months, together as a committee.
And then, you know, we get an opportunity, we're in the minority, to use the power that we do have, which is to procedurally hold them in a room for 26 straight hours, offering amendment after amendment after amendment after amendment. And they weren't joke amendments. They weren't messaging amendments. They were real amendments.
For example, one of my amendments was to get rid of this new fee that they're going to charge low-income families to get certain procedures, most procedures. And there's no argument for it other than they're trying to generate more money for – tax cuts, and they need the numbers of people who are using Medicaid to go down.
And so they're finding all of these ways to kick people off, or as one member on the other side said, clean up the rolls. So in any event, it was – they were all very compelling amendments and they voted against every single one of them.
But the people who sat in the room, I mean they came up to me afterwards and they would say like that was really compelling or you made a really good argument or one who – who I do believe is struggling with this. I think a lot of them are struggling with this. This is not, as I said in my sort of closing arguments, this is not the assignment they wanted.
If they had been told, hey, guys, we want to do tax cuts and provide tax relief for working people, the middle class, farmers, and small businesses, that's it. We don't. You know, we want to clean up fraud, waste and abuse. So work with the Democrats and follow the GAO reports, which lay out all the fraud, waste and abuse. But we don't want to add any more to the deficit.
And, you know, we're not going to take anyone's health care food. They would have passed that easily with us. I mean, easily. It's a teeny set of changes to the tax code that would only affect the wealthiest people in America. That's it. They wouldn't even notice it. And there would be no deficit spending. No one loses their health care. No one loses their food assistance.
And you get rid of all this waste, fraud, and abuse, saving a ton of money. But it's based on what the GAO and the professionals say, as opposed to a bunch of you know, fake claims about abuse in order to pay for tax cuts. So in any event, it was a lot of prep. It was a lot of us knowing what they were going to do. This is the part of this fight, this big fight that we were prepared for.
I mean, I don't, we weren't prepared for, you know, you know, Trump saying he's going to invade Greenland or that, you know, that was a possibility. How could you have known? How could we have known? There are other things. I don't think we were prepared for this level of corruption. It's insane how much he's doing to line his own pockets. I mean, he's raking in billions or the cruelty.
But we all read Project 2025. We knew this was going to happen.
Although I would say like for him, for Trump, the point is making money. He wants to make as much money as he possibly can. That is his goal. That's his North Star. And in order to make as much money as he can, he has to have power. And that's why he cares about
power and winning this election and then using power to, you know, with the tariffs so that people have to come to him and get exemptions.
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