Rep. Cori Bush introduced a resolution urging federal reparations for Americans of African descent, but one Republican lawmaker slammed the plan as 'absurd.'
Rep. Cori Bush introduced a resolution urging federal reparations for Americans of African descent, but one Republican lawmaker slammed the plan as "absurd."Democratic lawmakers announced a resolution Wednesday asking the federal government to pay potentially trillions of dollars in reparations to descendants of slaves and people of African descent, but not all members of Congress are on board.
"I think that is just the woke ideology peeking and rearing its ugly head," Rep. Kat Cammack, a Republican, said of the push for federal reparations."In this country, you can do anything, be anything, and this culture of victimhood, it has absolutely gotten out of control." Rep. Cori Bush, a Missouri Democrat, tells Fox News reparations need to happen at the federal level"because it was the federal government who caused the harm."The resolution, which Rep. Cori Bush said she would introduce Wednesday, calls for $14 trillion to close the"Black and white wealth gap" that she argues stems from racist governmental policies.
"Black people in our country cannot wait any longer for our government to begin addressing each and every one of the extraordinary bits of harm — all of the harm — it has caused since the founding, that it continues to perpetuate each and every day all across our communities all across this country," Bush said at aBut Bush wouldn't say where funding for reparations would come from.
"We're still having those kinds of conversations," the Missouri congresswoman told Fox News after the press conference.
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