'How Are They Going To Explain That?': Hawley Reacts To Some Democrats Planning To Vote Against CR

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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) speaks to reporters about the CR.

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00:00Democrats are saying they may shut down the government.

00:03I mean, okay, I just can't imagine they're going to do that.

00:09I mean, how are they going to explain that to the American people?

00:11They want, they want every, they don't want the military to pay?

00:16They want, listen, I'm supposed to, on Monday, I'm supposed to go with the EPA administrator,

00:21I'm going to take him to St. Louis to see in person the site where we have nuclear waste

00:27still burning in St. Louis.

00:29And the Democrats are what?

00:30They're going to shut down the government so the EPA has to stop all of its remediation

00:34and monitoring work?

00:35We can't monitor the nuclear burn in my state?

00:38Better not happen.

00:39So on Department of Education cuts, at this point are you concerned that there could be

00:42cuts to programs like IDEA to Pell grants?

00:46Are you at all concerned that there'll be issues with getting those kinds of funding

00:49out of the department?

00:50My hope is it'll make it easier to get it out, that the funding ought to go directly

00:55to local school districts, parents who have IDEA plans.

00:59That would be my hope.

01:00I mean, obviously these details are being finalized, but that's my message to the administration

01:05of the department is, hey, use this as an opportunity to move that funding to local

01:10school districts, to parents.

01:12So, you know.

01:13Your thoughts on the tariffs that President Trump is putting in?

01:17Well, let's see where they end up.

01:19I mean, the president has revised these several times.

01:21So, listen, I think the bottom line is, when I think about the economy, I think it's time

01:27for congressional Republicans to start thinking about a tax cut for working people.

01:30I'm all for renewing the president's tax cuts.

01:32We've got to do that.

01:33But I think we probably need, additionally, to do something that's going to actually

01:36cut taxes, put money back into the hands of hard-working Americans.

01:39I think they need it, based on what we're seeing.

01:41Are you worried, sir?

01:42Senator, have you been in touch with your state education officials?

01:46Oh, yeah.

01:47So, what is it?

01:48Are there things that they rely on for the school to do that they're going to have to

01:53make up and walk it their own?

01:55Well, funding.

01:56I mean, we get funding.

01:57Missouri gets funding, certainly.

01:58And my hope is that that won't be interrupted.

02:00Listen, I'm all for fewer people, fewer employees in Washington, bureaucrats in Washington

02:04taking up head funding.

02:06I'd love for everything that they make, all their salaries, all that stuff, to be moved

02:09to states like mine, at the local school districts.

02:12But what about Title I funding?

02:13Because that's supposed to help the disparity between low-income schools, higher-income

02:17schools.

02:17I mean, how is that going to be done locally when it's at the federal level that kind of

02:22tries to level the playing field there?

02:24Well, the checks are written at the federal level.

02:26So my point is that I hope that the funding will still be available.

02:30But in terms of having thousands of employees at the Department of Education who are getting

02:35paid and taking a chunk out of that funding in general, I'd love for all of that to be

02:39moved to local school districts and to states.

02:44You don't think the big-picture coordination that happens at the Department of Education

02:48will end up being cut by this at all?

02:51I don't know the answer to that.

02:52I don't know the answer to that.

02:52But my hope is, my message is, that I hope that we are going to move that funding to

02:57local school districts and states.

02:59All right.

02:59Thank you, guys.

03:00I've got to go.

03:00These two murdered children destroyed school.

03:03We can use the money here, Senator.

03:05We can use the money here for our schools.

'How Are They Going To Explain That?': Hawley Reacts To Some Democrats Planning To Vote Against CR

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