DENVER (KDVR) — This week marks 100 days for the reason that 118th Congress took over in Washington D.C. however one among Colorado’s new representatives might already be on the recent seat. Home Republicans are concentrating on Rep. Yadira Caraveo (D-Colorado) and her seat in Colorado’s aggressive 8th Congressional District in 2024.
“Colorado Level of View” talked with Caraveo about Republicans aiming for her seat, and far more this week.
The Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee listed Rep. Caraveo’s seat as one among 37 which can be “weak” in 2024. In the meantime the conservative, “American Motion Community” launched a marketing campaign a final month pushing the Congresswoman to vote for the Home GOP’s “Decrease Power Prices Act,” which might enhance home oil manufacturing, a key trade within the 8th District. She in the end voted towards it.
“However the focus of decreasing prices was not likely what was within the invoice itself,” Caraveo stated. “What they have been doing is attacking issues and coming at issues in a really partisan method and pretending that whereas they have been defending jobs which can be essential within the 8th district, actually dismantling loads of the environmental protections that we’ve had lately, together with within the Inflation Discount Act, that actually focused on renewable vitality.”
The subsequent huge merchandise Congress is ready to sort out would be the debt ceiling. A Home GOP caucus launched its priorities to Speaker Kevin McCarthy to pursue in these talks. It consists of rescinding unspent COVID-19 cash, prohibiting pupil mortgage forgiveness and repealing some inexperienced tax credit. Caraveo stated she is prepared to check out spending cuts to come back to some form of settlement.
“I feel there are loads of completely different areas in authorities the place there’s some huge cash that’s spent that we have to take a second take a look at,” Caraveo stated. “I’m not prepared to base these cuts on the backs of working households. Once they speak about slicing Medicare, slicing Medicaid, slicing Social Safety, that’s one thing I’m not prepared to check out.”
You may watch Caraveo on the doc leak on the Pentagon, working for re-election and far more on “Colorado Level of View” this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. on Colorado’s Very Personal Channel 2.
