Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
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Along with this, the congressman has been vocal in his disagreement with the 57% cuts made to the Pentagon's congressionally directed medical research programs after the continuing resolution went into effect. Congressman Moskowitz, welcome to the show.
How you doing?
I'm doing great. How are you?
Just another day, you know, I mean... In paradise? Yeah, I mean, I don't know what we're raging about today, but I'm sure it's something amazing...
Well, you're going to tell me. I take the pressure off myself and I invite people on to tell me what you're raging about.
Fair. I like that.
Yeah. But we'll do that at the end. Well, it'll trickle out actually throughout. And the first thing that I wanted to talk to you about, I'm sure does make you rage and you've been so vocal in talking about. school shootings. And I wanted to touch on last week's incident at Florida State University. Two dead, five wounded. Can you talk to me about, you know, what lawmakers are doing about this, how you felt, obviously, representing Parkland from that shooting in 2018? Like, Where are you in the headspace? And we continue to think about the families affected by yet another tragic American school shooting.
Yeah, well, I'm from Parkland. I'm in Parkland right now. I went to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. I remember February 2018 like it was yesterday, seven years ago. Coming to my school that evening and seeing, you know, your school look like a war zone, you know, all these police cars and FBI and triage, mass casualty triage outside of your school. I mean, Parkland's a small town, was rated the safest city in all of Florida before that happened. And, you know, then you go to the reunification center, right, where you're meeting with parents of the kids that were missing. You know, I knew they weren't missing. And then you watch parents go through the worst thing I have ever watched in my life where, you know, they get taken out of a ballroom and put into a separate room and police officers come in and they say, you know, your kid's dead on the first floor, your kid's dead on the third floor. And, you know, you don't hear crying, you hear screaming.
And, you know, that was the experience that I witnessed. I then, you know, was going to as many funerals as I could. I was passing other funerals to go to funerals. And then the three weeks after the shooting, something happened in Florida that hadn't happened before and hasn't happened since. So we got a Republican legislature, Republican House, Republican Senate. We had a Republican governor, full Republican cabinet, and getting them to come down and see the school was the difference. So I invited the speaker, Senate president, everyone came down, they saw the school, they saw what it looked like when there's bullet holes through the windows, backpacks piled outside, homework scattered all over the place, blood all over the walls, shoes have fallen off as kids were running for their lives.
And we eventually passed what was the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School Safety Bill, which raised the age in Florida to buy any gun to 21, three-day waiting periods for all guns, and red flag laws. Red flag laws have been used 21,000 times now since we've put them in place over the last seven years. Hundreds of millions of dollars for mental health, school safety, school resource officers.
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