During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) listed the funding the Trump Administration has frozen and or terminated since in office.
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00:00The gentleman's time has expired. I now recognize Mr. Lynch from Massachusetts for five minutes.
00:06Thank you, Madam Chair and the ranking member.
00:09I'd also like to thank the witnesses for their willingness to come before the committee and help us with our work.
00:15Madam Chair, I just want to describe a couple of documents that I'm going to ask to have submitted into the record by unanimous consent.
00:23One is entitled, it's the New York Times article dated March 16th.
00:27The title is, Investigators See No Criminality by EPA Officials in the Case of Biden-Era Grants.
00:35Without objection, so ordered.
00:36I'm still going to describe it, thank you.
00:39And the subhead says, a contentious investigation that questioned the legality of EPA grants has found very little to even suggest that government employees violated the law.
00:53The second is a Washington Post article entitled, Trump's False Claims that Stacey Adams Headed a Group that Got $1.9 Billion.
01:04Without objection, so ordered.
01:05Thank you so much, Madam Chair.
01:07And I'll sum up by saying that that allegation got four Pinocchios.
01:14All right, so, Ms. Yentl, President Trump, Elon Musk, and Doge have decimated essential services, lifeline programs and services that millions of Americans rely on for food, for affordable housing, and for health care.
01:34Just yesterday, Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut of the House Appropriations Committee reported detailed information indicating that Trump administration is freezing at least $425 billion in federal funding that Congress had already approved for communities in Democratic and Republican districts nationwide, for critical services and programs that serve all Americans.
02:00Some of the funding that have been frozen or terminated by the Trump administration includes $3.8 billion frozen for justice programs, including grants that support community policing, cops programs, victim services, including the violence against women programs that operate nationally.
02:21Also, $770 million terminated for NIH grants that support Alzheimer's, cancer, diabetes, and women's health research.
02:33He also froze, or actually terminated $1 billion for states to support substance abuse treatment and mental health services.
02:41And lastly, this is not lastly, but this is the last on my list, $6.1 billion frozen or terminated to support cutting-edge scientific and biomedical research at higher education institutions.
02:57One of those programs is run by Professor Joan Brugge.
03:03She has a research team at Harvard University.
03:06She's working on early detection protocols for ovarian cancer.
03:13One of the tough things about ovarian cancer and why it's so deadly is that there are no early detection methods.
03:20So Joan Brugge actually is working on identifying precursors that allow early detection of ovarian cancer, which affects about 20,000 women every single year.
03:34So when we think about this reconciliation bill and the rescissions that are going on here for funding for a lot of these not-for-profits and charitable institutions,
03:48what's the impact of that on those individual organizations and the work that they do?
03:55Thank you, Congressman.
03:56All of these cuts, these arbitrary and often unlawful, illegal cuts to congressionally appropriated funding are doing real harm to your constituents,
04:09to the constituents of everybody on this committee and throughout Congress.
04:14And if I could just for a moment to say in response to what the previous congressman raised,
04:19he's absolutely right that non-profit organizations enjoy strong bipartisan support.
04:27And there are many Republican champions for non-profits.
04:30I know there are Republicans on this committee and throughout Congress that serve on boards of non-profits,
04:36that volunteer their hours for non-profits.
04:39That's exactly right.
04:40And this isn't a smokescreen.
04:42This is who non-profits are.
04:45And the work that they do is essential.
04:47And when funding, this federal funding is cut that non-profits use to meet local community needs,
04:54it harms Americans.
04:56You mentioned the cuts to justice spending.
05:00That means organizations that are working to prevent crime are having their budgets slashed.
05:07We're seeing non-profit health clinics have to shut their doors.
05:11We're seeing food banks who are already...
05:14The gentleman's time has expired.
05:15I now recognize Mr. Fallon from Texas for five minutes.
05:19Thank you, Madam Chair.
05:20I also want to recognize that we have the chairman of Doge Texas, Giovanni Capriglione.
05:24Doge Texas, Giovanni Capriglione.
05:25Doge Texas, Giovanni Capriglione.
05:25Doge Texas, Giovanni Capriglione.
05:26Doge Texas, Giovanni Capriglione.
05:26Doge Texas, Giovanni Capriglione.
05:27Doge Texas, Giovanni Capriglione.
05:28Doge Texas, Giovanni Capriglione.
05:29Doge Texas, Giovanni Capriglione.
05:30Doge Texas, Giovanni Capriglione.
05:31Doge Texas, Giovanni Capriglione.
05:32Doge Texas, Giovanni Capriglione.
05:33Doge Texas, Giovanni Capriglione.
05:34Doge Texas, Giovanni Capriglione.
05:35Doge Texas, Giovanni Capriglione.
05:36Doge Texas, Giovanni Capriglione.
05:37Doge Texas, Giovanni Capriglione.
05:38Doge Texas, Giovanni Capriglione.