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Representative Devin Nunes today released the following statement concerning House passage of nearly a trillion dollars in new government spending.

“This legislation is not about creating jobs.

If jobs were the priority of Democrats, the Speaker would have listened to my pleas for help in California.

I asked for Democrat leaders to include a provision in this bill that would not have cost one penny. All it would have done is brought water to my district– saving 60,000 jobs in the San Joaquin Valley.

Folks may ask, “Why didn’t the Democrats put this in?”

It is because their radical friends in the environmental community have decided that two inch minnows are more important than people living and working in the San Joaquin Valley.

Just listen to a California Deputy Attorney General, who moonlights as a radical environmentalist.

He brushed off unemployment concerns and referred to my constituents as criminals.

He said, "…What parent raises their child to be a farm worker? These kids are the least educated people in America…They turn to lives of crime. They go on welfare. They get into drug trafficking and they join gangs…"

Democrats are spending $1 trillion but refuse to include one provision that costs no money and saves 60,000 jobs.

This bill is an absolute insult to the people living and working in my district. It is a criminally negligent proposal and I urge my colleges to vote no.”