Congress Blocked From Entering the DOE with Lateefah Simon | SoloPod
Native Land Pod
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4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Representative Lateefah Simon (CA 12th district) was there last Friday when an unknown man calling himself a “federal employee” blocked members of congress from entering the Department of Education. Simon and more than a dozen Democratic members of Congress were trying to speak with the head of the DOE after Trump and Elon Musk made clear their intentions to eliminate the department. She details congress’ ongoing efforts to limit Musks’ attempts to dismantle government agencies.
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| 0:00.0 | Native Land Pod is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Hey, everybody, it's Angela Rye. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome home. This is a special edition of a solo pod with my good friend, Congresswoman Latifah Simon, of California's 12th congressional district to talk about what in the |
| 0:21.8 | actual hell happened outside of the Department of Education last week. So we had a conversation |
| 0:27.7 | that same date to talk about everything that happened and what recourse members of Congress have |
| 0:33.3 | to protect taxpayer money, taxpayer resources, and all of the things. |
| 0:39.2 | And what is the role of Congress in overseeing this government that is clearly going |
| 0:43.4 | rogue? |
| 0:44.0 | So please tune into this conversation I first had on Instagram Live. |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome home. |
| 0:51.7 | Happy Friday, y'all. |
| 0:53.8 | It is a special podcast, non-podcast live. We're about to get into what's happening in these D.C. streets. That's what we're about to do. You all probably have seen footage of our members of Congress outside of the Department of Education at an all-access entrance, |
| 1:13.2 | by the way, and some random was out there and wouldn't let them in. |
| 1:17.0 | So I am going to add this wonderful human being to this thread. |
| 1:26.9 | Oh, she's here. |
| 1:28.2 | So I want to get to it. |
| 1:29.7 | How are you doing, sis? |
| 1:30.8 | I'm good. |
| 1:31.5 | I'm good. |
| 1:32.0 | I'm amped up. |
| 1:32.8 | It's been a long week, but this is the work that I'm so blessed to do. |
| 1:38.0 | They're messing with the wrong one. |
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