[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 96 (Thursday, June 5, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H2498]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    OPPOSITION TO JOB CORPS CLOSURES

  (Ms. TOKUDA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. TOKUDA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to the 
Trump administration's abrupt, unjustified attempt to close Job Corps 
centers nationwide.
  I have been to the Job Corps graduation on Maui. I have looked into 
the eyes of students whose lives were changed. I have walked the 
grounds of the Waimanalo campus where young people, many of whom had 
nowhere else to turn, found a path to a good job and a better life.
  These are not statistics. These are real people, and they deserve 
better than to be abandoned by a system that was supposed to lift them 
up.
  A mother in Hilo wrote to me and shared that no amount of mental help 
was able to save her son, only Job Corps.
  She told me: Please save my son. Please help save Job Corps.
  Today, I rise not just for policy, but for people. Every young person 
in Hawaii and across this country just needs a chance. We must not turn 
our backs on them now.

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