The doubtful Home Subcommittee on Delivering on Authorities Effectivity held its “Protecting Males Out of Girls’s Sports activities” listening to Wednesday, throughout which its rating Democrat, Rep. Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico, gave her colleagues a chunk of her thoughts.
“Let’s name this listening to what it really is. It is about bullying trans children and members of the trans group to distract from the failed insurance policies of the Trump administration, the failed insurance policies and exploitation of this DOGE subcommittee, and the GOP’s personal merciless agenda that’s occurring proper now right here on Capitol Hill, as they’re making an attempt to intestine Medicaid, intestine meals help, intestine environmental applications to present tax breaks to billionaires, as a result of that’s really what is going on on behind these doorways throughout us,” Stansbury mentioned.
Stansbury then addressed the LGBTQ+ group, affirming that Democrats are on their aspect.
“It is a committee right here in Congress that was created this 12 months by the GOP, supposedly to handle authorities effectivity. And this listening to actually has nothing to do with that,” she mentioned, earlier than excoriating Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and the remainder of the GOP for turning the subcommittee right into a spectacle of bigotry.
“Possibly it’s to distract from the fact that our economic system is tanking and costs are going up. Possibly it’s as a result of the finances that got here to Congress final week doubles down on proposals to take meals out of the mouths of youngsters,” she mentioned.
She then highlighted how disastrous President Donald Trump’s first 100 days—and the broader Republican agenda of austerity cuts—have been for the nation. She additionally famous that she and her colleagues count on Greene’s DOGE subcommittee to devolve right into a car for right-wing propaganda, particularly after the GOP’s first listening to flopped so badly.
She concluded by calling for the listening to to be adjourned, however the GOP majority sadly voted to proceed speaking about transgender athletes … and fencing … and the Olympics.
A minimum of Stansbury upheld the subcommittee’s so-called mission of “effectivity.”
You may learn the total transcript of Stansbury’s speech right here.
