[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 97 (Friday, June 6, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H2519]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              SUPPORTING GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAMS

  (Ms. SIMON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to oppose the administration's 
cuts to critical gun violence prevention programs, and I rise today in 
deep solidarity with the innovators of CeaseFire, violence 
interrupters, and community organizations around this country that 
spend every day, hour after hour, working on the ground and in our 
communities to stop gun violence.
  I thank them for their work. It is so critical and needed at a time 
when the Trump administration has announced cuts of $500 million to 
community violence intervention organizations and funding opportunities 
directly from the Department of Justice and over $1 billion in gun 
violence prevention funding for schools from the Department of 
Education. Make it make sense.
  Now, organizations like Youth Alive in Oakland, California, will not 
have the funding that they need that is so critical in this moment to 
do the work of violence interruption on our streets in conjunction with 
law enforcement and community members who have lost loved ones to 
violence.
  June is Gun Violence Prevention Month, Mr. Speaker, and we cannot 
stop this work in decreasing gun violence on our streets and in our 
communities.

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