Rep. Adelita Grijalva on What’s Really Happening in Washington!
The Don Lemon Show
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🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:38.5 | But they're, why are they ceding their power to the executive branch when it's supposed to be the Congress that does that? |
| 0:47.5 | I think they lost their backbone when Trump got elected. I mean, because really, this is the party party of we don't want the federal government in our everyday |
| 0:56.0 | lives, right? |
| 0:57.0 | We want to make sure to clean up any corruption. |
| 0:59.0 | We want to stop wasteful spending, but it's okay for us to spend billions of dollars |
| 1:07.0 | on war, on private prisons to detain our community members. |
| 1:14.6 | You know, I, for me, like we're, according to Trump, we can't afford childcare, we can't afford medical, |
| 1:21.6 | kind of any kind of services for people, can't afford insurance, but we can afford war. |
| 1:26.6 | Yeah. And that's where |
| 1:28.0 | fundamentally is the the kid of hippies this is just yeah well he did say we can't we have to |
| 1:33.0 | send i think he said child care we can't afford it that should be sent to the states and there was |
| 1:37.1 | something else medicare medicate he said same thing all right all of it no they don't want to |
| 1:41.3 | subsidize anything except for war except for war and then i guess apparently we have tons of money. This is also remember the party that didn't want us to be in debt, that our children's children would have to pay for the decisions that we make. And we're trillions at this point in debt. In debt. What does it feel like being inside right now? wow i've been here what six months um everyone keeps |
| 2:03.5 | telling me not to judge what's happening right now as like the lipness for what it's like to be |
| 2:08.5 | in congress that this is not a normal time and i hope it's not because this is completely dysfunctional |
| 2:15.8 | we have we're not doing anything really substantial |
| 2:20.0 | to help the American people at all, |
| 2:22.1 | to help our communities. |
| 2:23.8 | When I go back, people are asking me, |
| 2:25.5 | what are you doing? |
| 2:27.2 | And honestly, all I'm trying to do is be a cog in the wheel |
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