"I just have a question for my colleague from the state of Louisiana because I'm curious as to where your bill is. Louisiana is the state with the second-highest rate of deaths in this nation. You are more likely to be shot standing on a random street in your state than you are in Washington, D.C. So my question, where's your bill for the occupation of the state of Louisiana to keep your people safe if you're at all sincere in this?"
"The Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a meeting to discuss Trump's use of federal troops in U.S. cities to combat crime. The tactic was first deployed in Washington, D.C., and the president has stated his intention to do the same in other Democrat-run cities like Chicago and Baltimore. During the meeting, Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) confronted Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) on his support of Trump's D.C. takeover and challenged him to welcome similar measures in his own state:"
"In his response, Higgins began by saying he believed in state rights and considered himself a Constitutionalist. That was met with loud laughter in the chamber. As a Constitutionalist, I support my sovereign state's legislature, Higgins continued, which is doing everything it can to push back upon the crime rate of the Democrat-controlled cities of New Orleans! If you remove crime stats of New Orleans, Louisiana's one of the safest in the country."
The Oversight and Government Reform Committee met to examine President Trump's use of federal troops in U.S. cities to address crime, a tactic first used in Washington, D.C. and proposed for other Democrat-run cities such as Chicago and Baltimore. Rep. Maxwell Frost publicly challenged Rep. Clay Higgins for supporting the D.C. deployment and asked why Higgins had not proposed similar measures for Louisiana, citing high death and shooting rates. Frost accused Higgins of being a 'lap dog' for the president. Higgins demanded the words be taken down, invoked state sovereignty, and defended Louisiana's overall safety excluding New Orleans.
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