Tlaib: Cutting Gov’t Spending Affects Real Workers

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TLAIB: “So I want you all to know they’re moving, of course, with these massive cuts to programs. And, you know, I talk about the $880 billion in cuts in Medicaid, but behind all those cuts is a person, You know, it’s not even saving organizations, it's saving lives. You know, we’re not powerless. I remind people, I come from the most beautiful blackest city in the country, city of Detroit. And I’ll tell you, I was taught by the community mothers, it wasn’t Congress who got us the Civil Rights Act. They didn’t wake up one day and say, 'Hmm, I think equality and fighting against housing is a good idea.' It's we made them. We marched. We boycotted. We created resistance in the streets that made this institution behind me that isn’t ready for people like us, right, we make them ready and we make them move. And it's the same thing with organizing unions. You think somebody in the White House woke up and said, 'Wow, we need to make sure people have human dignity in the workplace?' It's when people withheld their labor. So understand the power that you all have.”