Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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and questioning them and what's happening and having shadow hearings and highlighting what is going on when we find out and keeping that pressure on this administration. I think it is so important. The administration would like nothing for... Literally, would like us as Democrats to act as Republicans are acting right now and just give it all away and just, you know, be a rubber stamp.
There's no way in hell I'm going to be a rubber stamp. I will never be. And that's the important part of moving forward in Congress as we challenge this administration on the bad things that they are doing. Let me highlight something that, again, is a rage for me. I come from a Western state. We are having wildfires in the West that are lasting now longer than they traditionally did.
It would usually be a month, maybe a couple of months, a season. They're now happening all year long. And we need resources to fight those fires, not only for the prevention of those fires, but the suppression and remediation. My colleagues and I, in a bipartisan way, we put almost about $8 billion into Western wildfire support.
This administration just recently has come along, has eliminated all of that funding that went to reduce the fuels for those fires, the contractors that were out there reducing the fuels for those fires, eliminated the positions for the wildfire firefighters, and has put stop orders on a number of things.
So I can guarantee you, and I can tell you right now after talking to some of my folks at home, everybody's in a panic mode about the next wildfire season and how devastating it may be, not just to our rural communities, but to our urban areas as well. That's the challenge we have is getting this administration
to understand the real impacts that they're having when they're making decisions in Washington, D.C., and that it is going to cost people's lives and their homes. And it really requires that conversation to take place. And for me, that means my Republican colleagues need to step up, some of them. Can't be a rubber stamp on this. We need to step up. They need to be there as well.
Pushing back in a bipartisan way is so important in this administration. Standing up for this branch of government, as you well know, First branch of government, checks and balances are so important. And we've got to fight for that. We've got to fight for that moving forward in this Congress. But Jessica, you know, you said it.
It is a challenge with some of my Republicans right now who are afraid of retribution.
Well, I will tell you the mental health piece is just so important. I think people aren't realizing the impact that this administration is having on undoing all of the resources we put out there around mental health. But by the way, there are gaps in services we need to do so much more.
But he's taking away even the smaller gains that we have made around mental health services for our seniors, for our kids, for so many that need it right now. And That to me is just my fight moving forward because I know so many of my colleagues in the past, Debbie Stabenow was one of them. She's since retired, that fought for mental health services.
Roy Blunt, who is retired, fought for mental health services. And now that's all going away. So that to me is worth the fight here and continuing to push back. And then in general, people just need to be calling down about the disagreements among Democrats, right? We're going to have disagreements. That's just the nature of the party that we have that you and I have just defined.
But at the end of the day, the unity is around this administration's abuse of power and stopping it and their overreach of federal government. And our focus should also be, as a priority, how we protect and fight for those hardworking Americans at the end of the day. That, to me, is very simple.
Did I do it? Yes. This is bad.
Thank you. It's great to join you.
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