WASHINGTON – Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) joined Breitbart News Radio on SiriusXM Patriot to discuss the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk, the harmful rhetoric coming from the left, the passage of his bill H.R. 4922 – "The D.C. CRIMES Act", and the introduction of his bill H.R. 5177 "The WEIGH Act."
Listen to the full interview here.
"We changed the age for being eligible for a juvenile charge to being under the age of 18 which is what it is in every other jurisdiction in the country - just common sense policy":
"Well, the bill is real simple. It would bar the District of Columbia from having adults receive juvenile sentences or be tried as juveniles. We changed the age for being eligible for a juvenile charge to being under the age of 18 which is what it is in every other jurisdiction in the country - just common sense policy. We also create a database of juvenile crime in the District of Columbia because what we've seen in D.C., is that it is juvenile crime that is off the charts because D.C. has not held it accountable, they're just not. You know, we had the mayor of D.C. in and some of the city council and they, they asked me like 'why would you do this, why would you take away our home rule powers?" And I said because you're not effectively securing the nation's capital and the primary responsibility for securing the nation's capital is Congress and if you're not gonna do your job, we're gonna do it for you. So that passed on a bipartisan basis, I think we had 35 Democrats join us on that piece of legislation. It's gonna go to the Senate and let's see what Senate Democrats do. What they should do is pass this and get it to the President's desk because it's about commonsense. You know, if you're an adult [and] you do something wrong, you gotta pay the price. Be tried as an adult and then figure out your life after that, but you gotta have safe streets and safe communities. The thing we cannot allow is for these silly, soft on crime policies to become law. We've already seen the outcomes of that kinda stuff and so I'm glad the D.C. CRIMES Act was able to pass. We'll see what the Senate does, hopefully the Senate passes it swiftly and it gets to President Trump's desk for his signature."
"If you're not just gonna do basic stuff to make sure the American people are safe, then no, you don't get federal tax money":
"So I talked with our Ag. Commissioner Wilton Simpson and I asked him about the details of what they were doing and we filed that legislation federally. It would require that all weigh stations on the interstate highway system, the federal system that there would be proficiency checks and CDL checks to make sure that one, yeah, your license is there. But two, you have the proficiency of English to be able to read our signs and then be safe on the road. I mean even for the truck drivers that are out there, the worst thing you want to see is have somebody that doesn't, can't even read the signs. Because look, I've driven a lot of highway miles in my life. You know, I can navigate a Honda Accord but what I can't navigate is a tractor trailer. We want to make sure that everybody is safe out on these roads and this is a simple thing to do. So its commonsense policy and the way we wrote the bill was that the Department of Transportation would enforce this and if there was a state that blocked the Department of Transportation from trying to enforce this then we would withhold transportation highway funding. So these states, these blue states that want to be sanctuaries or think that they're tough guys, want to stand up against President Trump, if you're not just gonna do basic stuff to make sure the American people are safe then no, you don't get federal tax money. And so, you know, hopefully we'll see this get agendaed on Capitol Hill real soon and we can get this bill moving through Congress."
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