Jasmine Crockett Gets ‘Perfectly Honest’ With Red States: ‘They Are About To Find Out’

The Texas Democrat called out conservatives who “fail to realize” how the Trump administration is dragging them to the “find out phase.”

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Wednesday warned that President Donald Trump’s “adversarial” attitude to blue states is bringing Republicans in red states into the “find out phase.”

Crockett — in an interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace — pointed out that Trump was “taunting” the State of California amid deadly wildfires last month before noting what people “fail to realize” in states that are “broke” like Alabama and Louisiana.

“I can go through pretty much the entire South and tell you that they’re broke and they rely on a lot of welfare from the government, to be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states like New York. Yeah, they send a lot of money into taxes and then broke states end up benefiting from it,” she said.

“And now they are about to find out, so we’re in the find out phase.”

Wallace — after Crockett warned that the Trump administration is driving the U.S. into a recession “at warp speed” amid Elon Musk’s cost-cutting efforts — noted that Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) suggested Republicans lobby the billionaire to preserve federal money for their states.

“Is that the new game? I mean, you have to beg?” Wallace asked.

“Oh yeah, no, the divided states of America is where we live, right?” Crockett replied.

Crockett — later in the interview — mentioned that Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) is among Republicans who’ve “weighed in” on the Trump administration’s planned funding cuts at the National Institutes of Health, dramatic cuts to research funding that have since been temporarily blocked by a federal judge.

Britt told Al.com that a “smart, targeted approach is needed” to “not hinder life-saving, groundbreaking research at high-achieving institutions like those in Alabama” as the administration looks to meet its NIH goal.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham — a public research university in the state — has received more than $1 billion in NIH funding in recent years, according to Al.com’s John Archibald.

This includes a majority of its $774.5 million in federal funding ― $413.7 million ― stemming from NIH awards in 2022, a press release from UAB noted.

Crockett, in response to the planned cuts to research funding, told Wallace that people in “already broke states” won’t have jobs as a result.

“The recession is coming, I told you here first,” she said.

Crockett: “Down in Alabama, who’s broke. Down in Louisiana, who’s broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they’re broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states…we’re in the find out phase”

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM