Whoa! Republicans Implode Under Pressure at Major Hearing
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Republicans did not see this coming. Democrats led by AOC were on fire cross-examining these MAGA Republican witnesses at hearings yesterday. Obviously, I showed you the explosive hearing yesterday involving Kash Patel in the Senate. Let me show you what went down in the House of Representatives yesterday. before the house energy committee let me show you what aoc's cross-exam of a guy named jeffrey novak the acting general counsel and principal deputy general counsel of the epa looked like aoc was just spitting the facts she was saying do you know how many jobs have been lost due to Donald Trump's closure of clean energy projects in the first half of this year alone? You know how many jobs he's costing the United States?
Watch AOC go to work, play this clip.
Do you know how many jobs have been threatened or lost due to the Trump administration's closures of clean energy projects in the last six months or so, the first half of this year?
I'm not aware of any such analysis.
91,000. Trump administration and Department of Energy policies have cost Americans 91,000 jobs nationwide in rollbacks on efficiency. And, you know, these large numbers are statistics. They're hard to, I think, people to understand when they show up on a white paper. But In Colorado's eighth district, Amprius Technologies canceled plans to construct a $190 million battery plant in Brighton, Colorado. In that same district actually, another company, VSK Energy, canceled plans due to the Trump administration, canceled their plans to build solar panels. And they scratched a $250 million investment and up to 900 jobs in that same district. In Georgia 12, an EV plant was canceled due to the Trump administration and DOE's freezing of the EV charging program.
Registered Georgia has a population of 157 people. They lost out on 166 jobs. More jobs, they lost more jobs than they have people in that town because of the cancellation and war on renewable energy and clean energy here. In that same district, a copper foil manufacturing plant went bankrupt as a result of these rollbacks. And Augusta, Georgia lost out on 350 jobs. And I mean, the list goes on. In South Carolina, 250 jobs when a construction of an EV plant in Florence was halted due to DOE's freezing of funds. I mean, we could go on. In Michigan 10th, 167 jobs were lost after $50 million worth of investment. These are all freezes in renewable and clean energy construction and development projects. This is an industry that has been a source of jobs and growth.
This administration, the Trump administration, is destroying the American economy, destroying American jobs, 91,000 jobs in this sector alone. I have one simple question. In these towns and areas, what is the DOE's plan to replace those jobs in those affected areas?
I'll say this is beyond the scope of what I'm prepared to testify to today. I'd be happy to take the question for the record in regard to... the analysis that you cited here.
Then you had Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia go to the floor of the House of Representatives because the MAGA Republicans put forward a piece of legislation that would lower the age to prosecute minors as adults from 16 down to 14 in DC. First, let me show you what Congress member Garcia said. Play this clip.
I want to remind our Republican colleagues that crime in DC over the last few years has actually been going down. And quite frankly, the idea that we are now going to put middle schoolers in prison, this should be called the Middle Schoolers for Prison Act, is inhumane and shameful. We can all agree that crime should be taken on, that D.C. and other cities we want to make safer. But this idea that we're going to penalize children in middle school at the age of 14 and put them in prison is irresponsible and, quite frankly, it's un-American. I want to remind my colleagues that that at this moment, what we're doing right now is stripping 700,000 residents who have come together in DC to create laws, to bring community together, to fight for statehood and representation.
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