In a fiery House Judiciary markup, Rep. Jasmine Crockett dismantles the gap between Republican talking points and Republican reality — using the GOP’s own data to do it.
Crockett reveals that immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest share of ICE detention, yet Republicans still insist they’re “getting the bad guys out.” She contrasts the facts with the rhetoric and exposes what she calls a deliberately misleading narrative.
She then turns to the sudden GOP fascination with the Epstein files — despite months of Republican efforts to avoid the topic and shut down Congress over it. Crockett highlights the selective outrage that conveniently appears only when it’s politically useful.
But the heart of her argument lands on affordability. While millions of Americans are surviving on just $6 a day in SNAP benefits, the same lawmakers preaching “fiscal responsibility” somehow found $40 billion overnight to send overseas.
Crockett lays out why voters are noticing the contradiction — and how it helps explain the results of the last election.
00:00Thank you so much. I just love that we care so much more about dogs' lives than we do actual lives, but I'm going to continue on.
00:09I want to make sure that I enter this UC, which is one of the reasons that we are a bit skeptical of any immigration, quote-unquote, enforcement laws that y'all are trying to pass.
00:20This UC is from The Guardian. It says, immigrants with no criminal record, now largest group in ICE detention.
00:27You know, I listened to Mr. Van Drew, who I do respect, and he went on and on and on about how this is about the bad guys.
00:40And I will be honest with you and tell you that when it came down to the election, there were a lot of people who really believed that the Republicans and the president were all about getting the bad guys out.
00:53People truly believed your words, but your actions are not matching up, because I've got the receipts showing that they are not matching up.
01:02And so call us a little paranoid in believing that the hypocrisy may continue to come from across the aisle.
01:11Speaking of hypocrisy, I do want to point out, since we're talking about Jeffrey Epstein, because we couldn't talk about Epstein before.
01:19If y'all recall, we were gone for about two months because we couldn't talk about Jeffrey Epstein.
01:23And now everybody wants to act as if they want to have, like, a real honest conversation about the victims and the survivors and everybody else.
01:31Where was this conversation a long time ago?
01:33And I know that y'all love to go back and say that Joe Biden didn't do it.
01:37You know, Joe Biden is blamed for everything.
01:39Joe Biden didn't do anything, and it was Joe Biden's fault, and why wasn't Joe Biden?
01:42Joe Biden didn't campaign on it.
01:44I just want to be clear.
01:45If y'all can run me to tape, then run me to tape.
01:48But, you know, when you campaign and you go out and you make a promise, then we evaluate whether or not you actually meet your promises.
01:54So, listen, this was rope that y'all decided to hang y'all selves with,
01:57because the president campaigned on the Epstein files while we were campaigning on things such as affordability.
02:04We were campaigning on the things that now people are complaining about, right, because of the tariffs
02:09and the fact that you guys won't say anything until the president, hey, sir, sir, tariffs are taxes.
02:15We as Republicans, we usually don't like taxes.
02:18And guess what?
02:18That's going to make everything unaffordable.
02:20So now he's going to be our big savior, and he is going to reduce the price of foods
02:25because he is the guy that actually increased the price of foods.
02:29So, listen, if you can have this honest conversation about Epstein now,
02:34let's just go ahead with this lame duck president and be honest about everything that the American people care about.
02:40They care about affordability.
02:42They care about the fact that literally people are starving in this country because we have 42 million people.
02:48And I don't remember any one of you during that almost two-month break deciding to go on faux news
02:57or any other news outlet and say, you know what?
03:00It is wrong to have 42 million people that are relying on $6 a day to eat,
03:05and we have the money because somehow our president was able to find under the couch cushion,
03:10the one that J.D. wasn't sitting on, under the couch cushion, he was able to find 42, or no, 40.
03:17How much did he find to send to Argentina?
03:1940.
03:19There we go.
03:2040 billion to send to Argentina.
03:24But those emergency funds, he couldn't find them emergency funds so that Americans could eat.
03:29So, listen, if y'all are going to be honest and talk about Epstein right now,
03:34let's be honest about everything that is causing y'all to lose real bad.
03:37Did y'all see the election results on November 4th?
03:40It didn't go very well.
03:41So, let's just start having honest conversations so that hopefully some of y'all in some of these tight seats,
03:47maybe y'all can get reelected and we can just work together.
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