Events in Milwaukee

Floor Speech

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Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, it is nice to be back in Congress after a little break being home. We look at the news back home, and in Milwaukee we had another tragedy. For the fourth time this year, a city of Milwaukee police officer was shot. This time, sadly, it was fatal. When Officer Kendall Corder was killed, we suffered another savage murder in Milwaukee.

When I was a child, Milwaukee was the safest of the 25 biggest cities in this country. We have gone a long way from that. I hope this House addresses the root causes of why we have so much more crime in our major cities than we did 25 years ago.

Also while I was at home, I ran into somebody who is in a low-income housing unit that receives the low-income housing tax credits. This person was being asked to confirm that they did not get any raise in the last year.

This is a horrible program. It is an embarrassment. The Republicans extended it in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and I hope we immediately do something to stop this program, which discourages people from working and improving their lives.

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