July 15, 2025 • 18 mins
Angela Rye in conversation with Congresswoman LaMonica McIver. McIver has put forward a resolution in the House honoring the victims of the 1967 Newark Rebellion, which she says the city is “still recovering from.” The congresswoman tells us about her new bill AND some of the impacts she expects from Trump’s budget.
Congresswoman McIver is also facing assault charges from Trump’s DOJ tied to an incident at an ICE detention center earlier this year, the same incident that saw Mayor Ras Baraka arrested on charges that were quickly dropped. The Congresswoman says the charges against her are similarly “politically motivated.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Native lamdpod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with
Reason Choice Media.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. Hello everyone, It's Angela Raie.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I am one of your hosts for Native lampod and
normally on Tuesdays, I have something called a solo pod.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And y'all, I've been busy.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I've been in the streets working with State of the People,
and so because of that travel schedule, I have not
seen you all in a really long time. So I'm
gonna say welcome home to myself on Tuesdays and really
grateful to be spending this time with you all.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Today.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I have someone joining us today that is truly, truly,
truly Native Lamppod fam. She is Congressional Black Caucus family.
To me, y'all know, those are my forever bosses. And
now as I get.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Older, I'm old, y'all.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
As I get older, some of them are my siblings,
and I have adopted this incredible woman as a sibling.
She is a fighter for what is right. She represents
the congress the tenth Congressional district.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
In New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Her name is Congresswoman Lamonica mc iver and she's joining
us today to talk about as many things as we
can before she has to step out. How you doing, Congresswomen.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Hey, sis, it's good to see you, as I'm just
excited to finally be on with you and be here.
So thank you so much for making time. And I
know you've been busy, and I'm just so grateful for
all of the work you've been doing as well, and
so it's such a pleasure to be here with you today.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So we are getting into some brass tacks, but there
are three things at least that I know we got
to cover. I want to cover what is wrong with
the fits, I want to cover what is wrong with
this crazy bill. And I want to cover what this
week means to Newark, which of course is your correct
congressional district. So in that order, because I want people
to we normally on our podcast, I'm in with calls
(01:51):
to action, Congress Women, but sometimes there are calls to
action that are so imperative you've got to let people
know from the outset. So I want to talk about how,
in your regular congressional oversight duties, you were outside of
an ice attention facility in Newark I know you have
had to talk about this and relive this over and
over again, but I do want you to talk to
(02:13):
our audience about what happened from your perspective the day
you were outside with commercemen Bonnie Wats and Coleman Mayor Rasbaraka,
who was detained that day and later released. But since
then you have been indicted, and I want people to
hear about what they say you've been indicted for. We'll
make sure in our playback of this video we run
the clips back because we got receipts too. But I
(02:34):
want you to talk about what happened from your perspective.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
So it's fine for me to talk about it a
thousand times because, as I always say, the facts are
on my side, and you know I was there doing
my job, and I'm always you can sign me up
anytime to talk about doing my job, because that's what
the people of the tenth elected me to do. I
showed up to Delaney Hall as I have showed up
to ice detension centers in my district before, to do
(03:02):
an oversight visit when my colleagues to colleagues from New Jersey.
Once again, we've done these visits before to a site
not too far from this location at Delaney, and we
were there because we had heard a lot of feedback
about this site. The mayor of the city of North
Rise Baraka, had been complaining that they didn't have the
proper CEOs and this is a privately owned center, detention center.
(03:24):
It's been a few things over the past couple of years,
and so because of all of these different complaints and
things that we were getting, we were doing our jobs
showing up to do an oversight visit and going to
check out what was happening. And then we planned on
having oppressor to alert the press a lot of protesters
who were there about what we saw, what we encountered.
We were not there to protest. We were not there
(03:47):
to do anything other than showing up to have the
oversight visit. Through all of that, it ended up turning
into a whole confrontation with Homeland Security and ICE officials
for no apparent reason other than them trying to hide
what was going on in the facility and trying to
delay us from going in to do our oversight visit.
The mayor of the city of Nork was not there
(04:08):
with us to do a oversight visit. He actually had
been going there all week long to deliver them citations
and to be there with people who had concerns about
the facility. So he was already showing up there every
day and he was not there with us to go inside.
Many people saw from videos the mayor was detained and
arrested for no apparent reason, for a made up situation
(04:30):
that they said he trespassed and went to court and
later had those charges drop. But just unnecessary, unnecessary confrontation
that was caused by those federal agencies and the people
who run that facility, which is GEO Group, which is
a very large private jail company. They owned jails all
over this country, and so at the end of the day,
(04:53):
it was just super unnecessary. But the bottom line is
we were there to do our jobs, have oversight, and
later through all of that, leave it or not, we
went on a tour of the facility. They you know,
took us on a tour. Finally, hours later we were
able to talk with detainees who told us that they
hadn't spoken to lawyers, they hadn't been able to use
(05:13):
the phone. Some of them had concerns about getting mental
health services there that they couldn't see a doctor. I mean,
we heard it all, and the facility was not up
to part very much, you know, very empty. Many locations
in the jail was unused. And then weeks later, what
do we see happen. There's a whole riot at this jail.
(05:34):
The detainees are fighting and angry because they haven't been
fed in days, and then when they did receive food,
it was frozen, and literally they were upset about that.
And then they also had people escaped from there because
they knocked down a makeshift wall that was not permitted
to have. Once again, those are the concerns we were
there for in the first place, and they broke out.
(05:56):
And so that's the reason why oversight is so important
and why we were there in the first place.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And there are two things about oversight that folks don't
always know if they're not familiar with Capitol Hill or
how members of Congress work. So you really had two
oversight roles. That is your district, so you're checking out
what's in the best interest for your constituents, but you
also serve on the Committee on Homeland Security, which, for
(06:20):
those of you who don't understand, there's something called Rule
ten jurisdiction in the House, and each committee has certain
oversight responsibilities. ICE is inside of the Department of Home
Fans Security, so the congress Woman Zebra operating under a
dual track of oversight, and I think that's really important too.
So they have a trial set for you on November tenth.
(06:42):
What do you need the people to understand before you
get to November tenth? What should we be doing?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
So Number one, I just wanted to thank everybody who's
been so supportive of me thus far. I mean, we've
gotten calls, I've gotten letters, we have people donate to
this legal fight and this legal battle over the last
couple of weeks, and I am just so grateful Angela,
including you. Thank you for everything that you've been doing,
all of those sisters out there who've been checking up
(07:09):
on me just to ask how I'm doing. I think
people sometimes forget that I'm a mom of a nine
year old, I'm a wife, i have a family, i
have a mother that's scared to death about what is happening.
And so I'm just grateful for all of the our
crient support for me. But I think people can definitely
support by heading over to my website just to see
how they can sign up. Rather it's signing a petition.
(07:29):
Rather it's you know, making sure that we're sharing this story,
sharing what's happening, and people who are able to contribute,
I mean down to one dollar. We're thankful for everyone
who's been able to do that. So for my website,
that's www dot Lamonica for Congress dot com, they can
go there. But it's there's so many ways that people
can help and support, and I think we have to
continue to bring light to what's happening to me, because
(07:51):
it's not about me, you know, singly, it's about what
they can do to people who stand up against them,
who will speak out against them, who are are doing
their job. How they're trying to stop leaders rather from
judges to mayors to congressional members to United States senators
from doing the job that people have elected us to do.
And so this is why it's important for all of us.
(08:12):
Our democracy is at state and we have to be
able to, you know, stand up for whats right, stand
up for our democracy, stand up for the soul of
our democracy, and do what we need to do. So
it's just not about Lamonica met g iv this is
about us collectively.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I think that that that is so important that there
is there are moments where the where it requires of
us to do something else, to do something collaborative, And
I think what happened with you is case in point,
because if they can do that to a member of
Congress who took and oh to oversee exactly where you were,
(08:57):
how much more they can they do to everyday people
were learning about this story of a young man named
Alex in the Dallas area who was detained by ICE.
A Morehouse graduate Monica, we don't know what's going to
happen next with these folks, and so I think it
is important for us to understand the disastrous impacts of
this administration. Most recently, the fourth of July, there was
(09:18):
a signing right of a bill into law, the Big terrible, bad, awful,
what is wrong with y'all? Bill hr one, the Senate
Amendment was passed in the House, and you know, it
was frustrated because we were spending a lot of efforts.
We were on a marathon for sixty nine and a
(09:38):
half hours. We were standing right with y'all. But on
the other side of that, it is so frustrating to
me when we ask people to call members of Congress
who aren't going to change their minds because they're beholden
to this man that they've decided is king and can
do no wrong. So talk about given the fact that
there are so many things that will impact us and
we don't even realize just how bad they will get,
(10:00):
talk about what was in that bill and now how
it's going to start impacting your constituents and Americans everywhere.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Well, first of all, the bill is awful. It's terrible,
and it's based in exactly what they love to push
out from the Republicans. It's cruelty. Everything that is cruel
signed them up for. And I agree, like, there is
nothing that you can do because they are so to
Donald Trump. There's nothing that they're going to do. They
do not work for the people that have elected them.
(10:29):
They work for Donald Trump. Period. It's no if and
buts about it. You should not be confused. And the
only way to change that is to vote these people out.
So I just want to make sure I say that
some of the things that are crucial in this bill
is one kicking people off of Medicaid, right, I mean
literally seeing seventeen million people possibly lose their health care
is just tragic. I think that's the most tragic piece
(10:52):
of the bill because people will die. We're going to
see people lose their health care, people who have cancer,
who you know, are battling illness. I mean literally so
many women who are delivering babies who are delivered based
off them having Medicaid. I mean, these are things that
are going to happen that are going to be drastic,
and I think that should open the eyes to everyone.
Everyone should have the right to have health care. In
(11:14):
this country and the richest country in this world. We
should not have people without health care. So that's number one.
Number two the impact to Snap benefits. There are so
many people who basically rely on Snap benefits and to
see to have a decrease of people rejected from Snap benefits,
people are going to be go hungry, right, They're going
to be moms and dads and families choosing between buying
(11:36):
food paying rent, which they're already doing that today. These
Snap benefits are just a little bit six dollars a
day that they're getting for Snap benefits, which is not enough.
Snap hasn't had an increase, you know, to what we're
dealing with or rising costs the groceries in probably over
a decade. Right, Eggs itself is more than six dollars
(11:57):
at this point, but that is going to be drastic
A new students who have loan payments, they're going to
see over two thousand increase in their loan payment plans.
I mean you coming out of college, you already have
loan day. How are you going to afford to have payments?
You know? Like that, It's just crazy to think that
this is something that these Republicans are pushing and celebrating.
(12:19):
I mean, afterwards, Angelie, you, I'm sure you've seen them.
They were literally playing YMCA thumbs up, dancing, smilaying and
praying and talking about the Bible and Jesus why they
did this, why they voted for this, and so these
are things and it's important the work that you're doing
the twenty four hour marathons, because you are providing information
(12:42):
to people who are out here sometimes falling asleep, which
is what Donald Trump want people to do. He wants
them to go to sleep. That's why he says, oh,
we're done with being woke, but it's important that we
continue to tell people because some of the stuff they're
not going to feel right away. Right this stuff is
not supposed to happen until after the next midterm because
they want to get elected again and they don't want
people to be upset about it. And so this is
(13:05):
why we have to keep talking about what is in
this bill, what is happening, and the crazy stuff that
they are doing and have voted on.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, and I know they don't have you long. I
do want to say. One thing that I appreciate about
what you're doing is you're giving people an alternative. Like
we keep talking about, it's not just being in the minority.
There's an opposition party that has to rise up. The
opposition has to be leading with what all the alternative options,
and most importantly, we have to be relying on people power.
(13:35):
This week in Newark marks the significant well really all
of the United States history, but it marks a significant
point in history with nineteen sixty seven rather with the
York New.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Work Nework rebellions.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I want you to talk to our listeners and our
viewers a little bit about what this moment means, especially
given where we are right now as the people.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So yesterday we reached the anniversary of the nineteen sixty
seven Nork Riots, which was a very very you know,
important matter that happened in the city of Nork. It
was something that changed the lives of many, changed the
concept of the city of Nork. It was a revolutionary
time that we saw happen. And so, you know, especially
(14:22):
what we're dealing with right now, we have to continue
to remember moments like this, remember the history. And that
is why we I introduced a resolution with my partners
of Rep. Kanyewey and Bonnie Watson Coleman, a Resolution of
Remembrance for the nineteen sixty seven Nork Riots, because it
was a dry stick situation way before my time of
being born, you know, in the city of Nork, and
(14:44):
my mother witnessed this whole thing at the time of
everything that happened. But many people remember there was many
people that died. Over twenty six people died in the
Nork Riots, over ten million dollars of damages to businesses,
both black and brown and white businesses, and literally some
of the city has just now started to recover. I
(15:06):
mean from the time I became the Central War Councilwoman
in twenty fourteen, we were just building on some sites
that had been vacant since the nineteen sixty seven Nork riots.
That's how long it's taken us to overcome the Nork riots.
And a lot came out of that. Three years later,
we elected the first black African American mayor of the city.
(15:26):
We had the Black and Puerto Rican Convention. You know,
a lot happened around that time, but it really showed
how the city united around what happened to you know,
make sure that we were able to come out of
that right and recover from that, and families are still
recovering to this day about that. So I'm super you know,
grateful to be in this particular space in time to
(15:47):
be able to introduce this resolution and continue to honor,
you know, all of those things and the people that
helped bring us out of that. The leaders like A.
Mary Barca, mayor of Baraca's father, and other people Junius
Williams and other folks who are around that time will
really help lead the community out out of that and
still to this day are doing the work and telling
(16:08):
that history about what happened in the city of Ork.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Well, here's to everything you're doing.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And I can't wait till they introduce the resolution for
USUS because you are also making history, and sometimes in
the act of making history, it is the most challenging,
It is the darkest. People don't realize it until you're
on the other side. But we are going to make
sure that folks go to the site they donate to
your legal Defense fund, that we keep you lifted up
in prayer and honoring the work you're doing even when
(16:35):
it's difficult. We really, really truly thank God for you
and know that our native Lampid you are always welcome home.
Congressman Lamonica mcgiver, thank you so much, sister, thank you.
Thank you to everybody who watched and them once again,
so grateful for each and every one of you, and
to all of your supporters in viewers, thank you once again.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Okay, everybody, Well, I am feeling really inspired. I'm going
to go back and make sure that I know a
lot more about what happened to Newark Rebellion. I'm really
thankful for the moments that Congressional Black Caucus members take
to teach us history that they are trying to take
out of history books quite literally in this day and age.
(17:15):
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(17:38):
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Speaker 2 (17:40):
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Speaker 1 (17:40):
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Speaker 2 (17:47):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. Hello everyone, It's Angela Raie.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I am one of your hosts for Native lampod and
normally on Tuesdays, I have something called a solo pod.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And y'all, I've been busy.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I've been in the streets working with State of the People,
and so because of that travel schedule, I have not
seen you all in a really long time. So I'm
gonna say welcome home to myself on Tuesdays and really
grateful to be spending this time with you all.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Today.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I have someone joining us today that is truly, truly,
truly Native Lamppod fam. She is Congressional Black Caucus family.
To me, y'all know, those are my forever bosses. And
now as I get.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Older, I'm old, y'all.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
As I get older, some of them are my siblings,
and I have adopted this incredible woman as a sibling.
She is a fighter for what is right. She represents
the congress the tenth Congressional district.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
In New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Her name is Congresswoman Lamonica mc iver and she's joining
us today to talk about as many things as we
can before she has to step out. How you doing, Congresswomen.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Hey, sis, it's good to see you, as I'm just
excited to finally be on with you and be here.
So thank you so much for making time. And I
know you've been busy, and I'm just so grateful for
all of the work you've been doing as well, and
so it's such a pleasure to be here with you today.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So we are getting into some brass tacks, but there
are three things at least that I know we got
to cover. I want to cover what is wrong with
the fits, I want to cover what is wrong with
this crazy bill. And I want to cover what this
week means to Newark, which of course is your correct
congressional district. So in that order, because I want people
to we normally on our podcast, I'm in with calls
(01:51):
to action, Congress Women, but sometimes there are calls to
action that are so imperative you've got to let people
know from the outset. So I want to talk about how,
in your regular congressional oversight duties, you were outside of
an ice attention facility in Newark I know you have
had to talk about this and relive this over and
over again, but I do want you to talk to
(02:13):
our audience about what happened from your perspective the day
you were outside with commercemen Bonnie Wats and Coleman Mayor Rasbaraka,
who was detained that day and later released. But since
then you have been indicted, and I want people to
hear about what they say you've been indicted for. We'll
make sure in our playback of this video we run
the clips back because we got receipts too. But I
(02:34):
want you to talk about what happened from your perspective.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
So it's fine for me to talk about it a
thousand times because, as I always say, the facts are
on my side, and you know I was there doing
my job, and I'm always you can sign me up
anytime to talk about doing my job, because that's what
the people of the tenth elected me to do. I
showed up to Delaney Hall as I have showed up
to ice detension centers in my district before, to do
(03:02):
an oversight visit when my colleagues to colleagues from New Jersey.
Once again, we've done these visits before to a site
not too far from this location at Delaney, and we
were there because we had heard a lot of feedback
about this site. The mayor of the city of North
Rise Baraka, had been complaining that they didn't have the
proper CEOs and this is a privately owned center, detention center.
(03:24):
It's been a few things over the past couple of years,
and so because of all of these different complaints and
things that we were getting, we were doing our jobs
showing up to do an oversight visit and going to
check out what was happening. And then we planned on
having oppressor to alert the press a lot of protesters
who were there about what we saw, what we encountered.
We were not there to protest. We were not there
(03:47):
to do anything other than showing up to have the
oversight visit. Through all of that, it ended up turning
into a whole confrontation with Homeland Security and ICE officials
for no apparent reason other than them trying to hide
what was going on in the facility and trying to
delay us from going in to do our oversight visit.
The mayor of the city of Nork was not there
(04:08):
with us to do a oversight visit. He actually had
been going there all week long to deliver them citations
and to be there with people who had concerns about
the facility. So he was already showing up there every
day and he was not there with us to go inside.
Many people saw from videos the mayor was detained and
arrested for no apparent reason, for a made up situation
(04:30):
that they said he trespassed and went to court and
later had those charges drop. But just unnecessary, unnecessary confrontation
that was caused by those federal agencies and the people
who run that facility, which is GEO Group, which is
a very large private jail company. They owned jails all
over this country, and so at the end of the day,
(04:53):
it was just super unnecessary. But the bottom line is
we were there to do our jobs, have oversight, and
later through all of that, leave it or not, we
went on a tour of the facility. They you know,
took us on a tour. Finally, hours later we were
able to talk with detainees who told us that they
hadn't spoken to lawyers, they hadn't been able to use
(05:13):
the phone. Some of them had concerns about getting mental
health services there that they couldn't see a doctor. I mean,
we heard it all, and the facility was not up
to part very much, you know, very empty. Many locations
in the jail was unused. And then weeks later, what
do we see happen. There's a whole riot at this jail.
(05:34):
The detainees are fighting and angry because they haven't been
fed in days, and then when they did receive food,
it was frozen, and literally they were upset about that.
And then they also had people escaped from there because
they knocked down a makeshift wall that was not permitted
to have. Once again, those are the concerns we were
there for in the first place, and they broke out.
(05:56):
And so that's the reason why oversight is so important
and why we were there in the first place.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
And there are two things about oversight that folks don't
always know if they're not familiar with Capitol Hill or
how members of Congress work. So you really had two
oversight roles. That is your district, so you're checking out
what's in the best interest for your constituents, but you
also serve on the Committee on Homeland Security, which, for
(06:20):
those of you who don't understand, there's something called Rule
ten jurisdiction in the House, and each committee has certain
oversight responsibilities. ICE is inside of the Department of Home
Fans Security, so the congress Woman Zebra operating under a
dual track of oversight, and I think that's really important too.
So they have a trial set for you on November tenth.
(06:42):
What do you need the people to understand before you
get to November tenth? What should we be doing?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
So Number one, I just wanted to thank everybody who's
been so supportive of me thus far. I mean, we've
gotten calls, I've gotten letters, we have people donate to
this legal fight and this legal battle over the last
couple of weeks, and I am just so grateful Angela,
including you. Thank you for everything that you've been doing,
all of those sisters out there who've been checking up
(07:09):
on me just to ask how I'm doing. I think
people sometimes forget that I'm a mom of a nine
year old, I'm a wife, i have a family, i
have a mother that's scared to death about what is happening.
And so I'm just grateful for all of the our
crient support for me. But I think people can definitely
support by heading over to my website just to see
how they can sign up. Rather it's signing a petition.
(07:29):
Rather it's you know, making sure that we're sharing this story,
sharing what's happening, and people who are able to contribute,
I mean down to one dollar. We're thankful for everyone
who's been able to do that. So for my website,
that's www dot Lamonica for Congress dot com, they can
go there. But it's there's so many ways that people
can help and support, and I think we have to
continue to bring light to what's happening to me, because
(07:51):
it's not about me, you know, singly, it's about what
they can do to people who stand up against them,
who will speak out against them, who are are doing
their job. How they're trying to stop leaders rather from
judges to mayors to congressional members to United States senators
from doing the job that people have elected us to do.
And so this is why it's important for all of us.
(08:12):
Our democracy is at state and we have to be
able to, you know, stand up for whats right, stand
up for our democracy, stand up for the soul of
our democracy, and do what we need to do. So
it's just not about Lamonica met g iv this is
about us collectively.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I think that that that is so important that there
is there are moments where the where it requires of
us to do something else, to do something collaborative, And
I think what happened with you is case in point,
because if they can do that to a member of
Congress who took and oh to oversee exactly where you were,
(08:57):
how much more they can they do to everyday people
were learning about this story of a young man named
Alex in the Dallas area who was detained by ICE.
A Morehouse graduate Monica, we don't know what's going to
happen next with these folks, and so I think it
is important for us to understand the disastrous impacts of
this administration. Most recently, the fourth of July, there was
(09:18):
a signing right of a bill into law, the Big terrible, bad, awful,
what is wrong with y'all? Bill hr one, the Senate
Amendment was passed in the House, and you know, it
was frustrated because we were spending a lot of efforts.
We were on a marathon for sixty nine and a
(09:38):
half hours. We were standing right with y'all. But on
the other side of that, it is so frustrating to
me when we ask people to call members of Congress
who aren't going to change their minds because they're beholden
to this man that they've decided is king and can
do no wrong. So talk about given the fact that
there are so many things that will impact us and
we don't even realize just how bad they will get,
(10:00):
talk about what was in that bill and now how
it's going to start impacting your constituents and Americans everywhere.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Well, first of all, the bill is awful. It's terrible,
and it's based in exactly what they love to push
out from the Republicans. It's cruelty. Everything that is cruel
signed them up for. And I agree, like, there is
nothing that you can do because they are so to
Donald Trump. There's nothing that they're going to do. They
do not work for the people that have elected them.
(10:29):
They work for Donald Trump. Period. It's no if and
buts about it. You should not be confused. And the
only way to change that is to vote these people out.
So I just want to make sure I say that
some of the things that are crucial in this bill
is one kicking people off of Medicaid, right, I mean
literally seeing seventeen million people possibly lose their health care
is just tragic. I think that's the most tragic piece
(10:52):
of the bill because people will die. We're going to
see people lose their health care, people who have cancer,
who you know, are battling illness. I mean literally so
many women who are delivering babies who are delivered based
off them having Medicaid. I mean, these are things that
are going to happen that are going to be drastic,
and I think that should open the eyes to everyone.
Everyone should have the right to have health care. In
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this country and the richest country in this world. We
should not have people without health care. So that's number one.
Number two the impact to Snap benefits. There are so
many people who basically rely on Snap benefits and to
see to have a decrease of people rejected from Snap benefits,
people are going to be go hungry, right, They're going
to be moms and dads and families choosing between buying
(11:36):
food paying rent, which they're already doing that today. These
Snap benefits are just a little bit six dollars a
day that they're getting for Snap benefits, which is not enough.
Snap hasn't had an increase, you know, to what we're
dealing with or rising costs the groceries in probably over
a decade. Right, Eggs itself is more than six dollars
(11:57):
at this point, but that is going to be drastic
A new students who have loan payments, they're going to
see over two thousand increase in their loan payment plans.
I mean you coming out of college, you already have
loan day. How are you going to afford to have payments?
You know? Like that, It's just crazy to think that
this is something that these Republicans are pushing and celebrating.
(12:19):
I mean, afterwards, Angelie, you, I'm sure you've seen them.
They were literally playing YMCA thumbs up, dancing, smilaying and
praying and talking about the Bible and Jesus why they
did this, why they voted for this, and so these
are things and it's important the work that you're doing
the twenty four hour marathons, because you are providing information
(12:42):
to people who are out here sometimes falling asleep, which
is what Donald Trump want people to do. He wants
them to go to sleep. That's why he says, oh,
we're done with being woke, but it's important that we
continue to tell people because some of the stuff they're
not going to feel right away. Right this stuff is
not supposed to happen until after the next midterm because
they want to get elected again and they don't want
people to be upset about it. And so this is
(13:05):
why we have to keep talking about what is in
this bill, what is happening, and the crazy stuff that
they are doing and have voted on.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, and I know they don't have you long. I
do want to say. One thing that I appreciate about
what you're doing is you're giving people an alternative. Like
we keep talking about, it's not just being in the minority.
There's an opposition party that has to rise up. The
opposition has to be leading with what all the alternative options,
and most importantly, we have to be relying on people power.
(13:35):
This week in Newark marks the significant well really all
of the United States history, but it marks a significant
point in history with nineteen sixty seven rather with the
York New.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Work Nework rebellions.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I want you to talk to our listeners and our
viewers a little bit about what this moment means, especially
given where we are right now as the people.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So yesterday we reached the anniversary of the nineteen sixty
seven Nork Riots, which was a very very you know,
important matter that happened in the city of Nork. It
was something that changed the lives of many, changed the
concept of the city of Nork. It was a revolutionary
time that we saw happen. And so, you know, especially
(14:22):
what we're dealing with right now, we have to continue
to remember moments like this, remember the history. And that
is why we I introduced a resolution with my partners
of Rep. Kanyewey and Bonnie Watson Coleman, a Resolution of
Remembrance for the nineteen sixty seven Nork Riots, because it
was a dry stick situation way before my time of
being born, you know, in the city of Nork, and
(14:44):
my mother witnessed this whole thing at the time of
everything that happened. But many people remember there was many
people that died. Over twenty six people died in the
Nork Riots, over ten million dollars of damages to businesses,
both black and brown and white businesses, and literally some
of the city has just now started to recover. I
(15:06):
mean from the time I became the Central War Councilwoman
in twenty fourteen, we were just building on some sites
that had been vacant since the nineteen sixty seven Nork riots.
That's how long it's taken us to overcome the Nork riots.
And a lot came out of that. Three years later,
we elected the first black African American mayor of the city.
(15:26):
We had the Black and Puerto Rican Convention. You know,
a lot happened around that time, but it really showed
how the city united around what happened to you know,
make sure that we were able to come out of
that right and recover from that, and families are still
recovering to this day about that. So I'm super you know,
grateful to be in this particular space in time to
(15:47):
be able to introduce this resolution and continue to honor,
you know, all of those things and the people that
helped bring us out of that. The leaders like A.
Mary Barca, mayor of Baraca's father, and other people Junius
Williams and other folks who are around that time will
really help lead the community out out of that and
still to this day are doing the work and telling
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that history about what happened in the city of Ork.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Well, here's to everything you're doing.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And I can't wait till they introduce the resolution for
USUS because you are also making history, and sometimes in
the act of making history, it is the most challenging,
It is the darkest. People don't realize it until you're
on the other side. But we are going to make
sure that folks go to the site they donate to
your legal Defense fund, that we keep you lifted up
in prayer and honoring the work you're doing even when
(16:35):
it's difficult. We really, really truly thank God for you
and know that our native Lampid you are always welcome home.
Congressman Lamonica mcgiver, thank you so much, sister, thank you.
Thank you to everybody who watched and them once again,
so grateful for each and every one of you, and
to all of your supporters in viewers, thank you once again.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Okay, everybody, Well, I am feeling really inspired. I'm going
to go back and make sure that I know a
lot more about what happened to Newark Rebellion. I'm really
thankful for the moments that Congressional Black Caucus members take
to teach us history that they are trying to take
out of history books quite literally in this day and age.
(17:15):
Make sure that you comment on YouTube in the comments
on iHeart and make sure that you tune in on
Thursday for our show, Our normal Show with Tiffany Cross
and Andrew Gillum. We're looking forward to hearing from you all,
definitely sending your videos, your comments, your questions. If you
say miscross the tips, say mis rideing me and vice versa,
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you understand.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
But anyway, we.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Will be back recording Wednesday, but you'll see our next
episode on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Until then, Welcome home Me Office. They're real.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
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