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Robert Garcia

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  1. “Listening to the large corporations that direct a lot of what Donald Trump's agenda is. And I think it's horrifying to think that less people are going to have healthcare, not more. This is going to impact the Affordable Care Act, the Obamacare. Food assistance, which has been traditionally kind of a bipartisan agenda across this country where young people, particularly kids in schools, should have reduced lunches that we should feed kids at a low income especially. Kids are going to lose their federal food assistance. And so you are going to have school districts making the choice, the hard choice of having to remove kids off of reduced lunch or free lunch at many of these schools. Many of these kids, as we know, are low income and barely getting by. And then you have in that same bill, not just these kind of redistribution of wealth, which is horrific. You have agencies like ICE, which are being supercharged.”

    2025-07-10 · On with Kara Swisher · Taking on Trump Family Corruption with Rep. Robert Garcia · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Any hope that what they're saying is anything more than empty rhetoric. They really have no interest in stopping the Trump agenda. And I think they are more interested in their billionaire donors. They're more interested”

    2025-07-10 · On with Kara Swisher · Taking on Trump Family Corruption with Rep. Robert Garcia · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “I mean, I did have some conversations, but honestly, I was never optimistic that we were going to have the votes to stop it. I have seen absolutely zero courage. There's been no spine in some of these Republicans that have essentially done whatever Donald Trump has asked them to do. And yet at the same time, claim that they're somehow moderate or they somehow care about Medicaid. I mean, that has been, I think the most difficult thing to see. I mean, you take someone, for example, in my home state of California, David Valadeo. He has more people on Medicare, as we call it Medical in California, than any other member of Congress in California. Yet he voted after saying he wouldn't for months and months, he voted to cut their health care. And so if someone like David Valadeo or Young Kim and Orange County, these kind of self-proclaimed, more moderate members aren't going to stop the loss of healthcare for their own constituents. I just don't have...”

    2025-07-10 · On with Kara Swisher · Taking on Trump Family Corruption with Rep. Robert Garcia · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “Look, I think the Supreme Court continues to do terrible things. And overwhelmingly, they have sided with Donald Trump's warped vision for the country. And this idea that somehow he has the power to decimate agencies, not take into account what Congress has actually put in place as far as budgets are concerned, in my opinion, taken away, destroying the federal workforce doesn't just impact the moment. We know it's put under hiring freeze, for example. He's extended that now. This will have lasting impacts for the next five, ten, fifteen years. You can't just replace people. People say, oh, well, we win the White House back. We'll just rebuild the government and rehire. That's just not the way it works. You're talking about losing people that have 20, 30 years of experience. And I think our government in the long term is going to be much worse shape in the ability to respond, not just to a crisis, to a federal emergency, but just with the knowledge.”

    2025-07-10 · On with Kara Swisher · Taking on Trump Family Corruption with Rep. Robert Garcia · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “Well, first, let's be really clear. I think eliminating FEMA and moving that to the states or somehow reducing the kind of national support to take on national emergencies, and particularly ones that are related around climate, I think would be a huge mistake. I mean, local governments, counties, states, cities depend on FEMA. And you'd have national disasters, have greater impacts on communities. I don't think it's something that would be supported by many mayors, for example, or county executives across the country. And so I'm hopeful that Congress is able to push back on that. I mean, tragedies don't happen in blue states only. There are Republican conservative governors and members of Congress that are being impacted, not just by what happened in Texas, but other places. They've got to stand up and be loud as well that FEMA has an important role to play in minimizing its impact to detriment of people's health and well-being and oftentimes lives.”

    2025-07-10 · On with Kara Swisher · Taking on Trump Family Corruption with Rep. Robert Garcia · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “Well, I think look, I think obviously the agencies themselves are going to be responsible for getting a lot of information. There's people on the ground. There's going to be counties that are going to investigate the state and the federal government has a role. I mean, that's the reason why our government has Inspector Generals. That is why we have auditing systems in place. When the federal government responds, we should be able to know if that was an appropriate response or not. And I think those are questions that have to be asked regardless of whether Donald Trump or whoever is present. And I imagine that once the initial impact of this tragedy begins to settle just a bit, there is going to be an oversight world to ensure that everything was done correctly.”

    2025-07-10 · On with Kara Swisher · Taking on Trump Family Corruption with Rep. Robert Garcia · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “I mean, first, it's a horrific tragedy. Obviously, just watching the death toll rise the way it has, knowing that people are still missing. I've been talking to not just friends in Texas, but some of the Texas delegation, congressional delegation, and everyone's just horrified. And I think what's really important, obviously, at this moment, is that we get all of the facts. I think that's going to be critical. I think obviously there's a lot of blame going around from certain folks. what is actually true and what the actual holes in the system were. I think we have a responsibility to find out. I think that asking tough questions and certainly trying to get answers to ensure that this type of horrific tragedy doesn't happen again, I think is important.”

    2025-07-10 · On with Kara Swisher · Taking on Trump Family Corruption with Rep. Robert Garcia · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “I actually grew up reading comics. That's actually how I learned English. Superman is the ultimate immigrant. And that really like, I think I identified with that.”

    2025-07-10 · On with Kara Swisher · Taking on Trump Family Corruption with Rep. Robert Garcia · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT