During a town hall event on Monday, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) spoke about the possible effects of passing the budget resolution.
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00:00We'll do the white, mask, blue.
00:17What I would like to really see is a pledge from the Democrats.
00:23They will always have a primary, and they will not have any superdelegates who put their thumb on the scale.
00:28Because every time they have, they've lost.
00:31They have to have pure de-Democrats on the primaries.
00:37That's the only way we're going to fix this.
00:39Because the Democratic Party has been weak on supporting workers and labor for a long time.
00:45When OSHA was created, there was one inspector for about every two to four factories.
00:50What the ratio is now?
00:51About one for 200.
00:53You're lucky to get a two-hour inspection every three years.
00:55They lost disgust years ago.
00:58And that's just kind of across the board.
01:00Who put up a fight?
01:01Who closed it?
01:03Yeah!
01:05And then we'll see the young man on the edge.
01:09Hi, the Yale Youth Survey poll shows that among youth, 18 to 21-year-olds favor the Republican
01:24candidate over the Democratic candidate on a generic ballot by 11 points.
01:29The Democratic brand has become toxic among young people.
01:33What are you doing to combat this, and what ideas do you have for us to win back young people?
01:37I'm trying to find who's the youngest until this week.
01:56And I guess it's me!
01:58I guess I'll just speak here as the millennial on this stage.
02:06Yeah, I'm still a millennial, and that makes me, you know, for our millennials.
02:10There's a lot of millennials on this stage.
02:13And part of that is because we live our authentic truths as Democrats,
02:16and we bring that to the table, and we don't worry about, like,
02:18oh, this is what the poll-tested message says about the flirty of the school.
02:23We say, you know what's wrong that people are trying to tell me how to, like,
02:26do my own health care decisions.
02:28It's wrong that there isn't a flirty funded public school in my neighborhood.
02:31And I don't worry about what the, like, cool thing to do is.
02:33I just say, this is what my community should look like.
02:36This is what we all want Northeast Minneapolis and Southeast Como to look like
02:40in a broader world where we have this.
02:42And standing up to each other and saying,
02:45hey, I think this is where we need to go as a party.
02:48And where I think we need to go as a party is a human-centered party
02:51where we can be real with each other and say,
02:54that's wrong and that's right, and we're going to do what's right.
02:57I mean, I don't think that's a great way.
02:59Ooh, why don't we just tick and talk our way to the top?
03:01Well, no, we're going to just do what matters,
03:04and we're going to stand up for our neighbors.
03:10And I think, I think, to the question of the primaries,
03:12none of us are a party to what the DNC decides,
03:16but as somebody who's been primary, every cycle, I support primaries.
03:20But I don't think people should be in place of primaries.
03:24It's good for democracy.
03:32Okay, she had, there is glasses and blue shirt.
03:40Hi, my name is Laura, and I'm a teacher at Cosmos Montessori School,
03:58a chartered public school serving grades preschool through fifth grade.
04:01And we're actually located in the same building as your office.
04:05It's not a community center.
04:08I visited them.
04:10Yes, you have.
04:11My chartered public school is providing dual-language Montessori programming,
04:15and we're doing it with limited funding,
04:18as chartered public schools receive roughly 70% of what traditional district schools receive.
04:24So my question is, do you have any insight on the likelihood of cuts to federal funding,
04:29such as title or special education funding,
04:32or advice on how to advocate against these cuts?
04:37You know, so my name is Sydney.
04:49I am the chair of the House Education Committee here in Minnesota.
04:54And the real answer is I'm very concerned about this,
04:58and it will have enormous impacts on our students
05:02who receive special education support the most
05:04if the federal department of education goes away.
05:06So there's a lot of educators in the room.
05:09I see you.
05:10Shout out to all of you.
05:16And you know what this is like in your classroom.
05:19For your special education classrooms,
05:21they're some of the most underfunded.
05:22And that special education funding is coming from the feds.
05:26So the state of Minnesota will not turn our backs
05:29on students receiving special education services
05:32and our most needy students.
05:33But that will mean that we will have to figure out how to close that hole.
05:36And this will impact every student in Minnesota.
05:38So it's something that we are standing up to making.
05:41We are standing up and saying this is wrong.
05:43All students deserve to have a world-class public education.
05:47And what the Republicans are doing
05:49by attacking special education money is wrong.
05:51And it's an attack on all of us,
05:53but it's an attack on our most vulnerable children.
05:55So thank you for standing up to that.
05:57It's wrong and it shouldn't happen.
05:58Thank you, Cindy.
06:02And we're in a month or two.
06:06The budget resolution that we passed,
06:11once it goes through the committees and we vote on it,
06:15has about $230 billion in cuts to education funding.
06:20So it is hard to have clarity about what parts,
06:25but I assume that it's going to have severe repercussions
06:29on education funding when we already have
06:32donor hole in funding here.