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Home Democratic Chief Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has been pushing again in opposition to the Trump/GOP agenda since day one, however on Monday, Jeffries went to a brand new stage.
Video of Hakeem Jeffries:
Rep. Jeffries stated on the Home flooring:
  Final 12 months, all we heard from my Republican colleagues was the necessity to do one thing concerning the excessive value of dwelling whereas on the identical time they ran away from Undertaking 2025 as if it did not exist. This 12 months, Republicans have spent all of their time implementing essentially the most excessive components of Undertaking 2025 and have accomplished nothing to decrease the excessive value of dwelling, not a single factor, not a single invoice, not a single concept, not a single proposal from my Home Republican colleagues to do something concerning the excessive value of dwelling in the US of America.
Why?
It is a Republican bait-and-switch. Half two of the Republican bait and swap is that their true goal is to enact huge tax cuts for billionaires and rich firms, identical to they did in 2017, when the GOP tax rip-off was handed, the place they set in movement laws the place 83 % of the advantages would go to the wealthiest 1%.
And now my Home Republicans are, colleagues are again at it. There they go once more. Identical plan. Nothing to drive down the excessive value of dwelling. Every little thing is about huge tax cuts for billionaires and rich firms. Who in lots of circumstances aren’t even asking for it. They usually actually do not want the aid that on a regular basis Individuals want.
That working-class Individuals want. That middle-class Individuals want. That each one these individuals who aspire to be half of the middle-class want. It is a Republican bait-and-switch.
What is the last aspect of the Republican bait and swap?
Enact these huge tax cuts for billionaires and rich firms and stick working class Individuals with the invoice.
The nerve of this group of individuals who spent all final 12 months lecturing the nation about how they have been going to do one thing to drive down the excessive value of dwelling, do nothing about it, Home Republicans are planning to enact huge tax cuts for his or her billionaire buddies, after which, as the ultimate aspect of the Republican bait and swap, stick working-class Individuals with the invoice.
Home Republicans don’t have any plan to like and cherish Medicaid. Let’s be very clear about that. No plan to like and cherish Medicaid. Their plan is to destroy Social Safety, destroy Medicare, and destroy Medicaid as we all know it. And now with Republicans controlling the Home, the Senate, and the Presidency, it is their intention to try to do it.
Simply watch what occurs on the Republican price range listening to that’s upcoming. By way of what’s proposed, the cuts to Medicaid, that might be devastating. Hospitals will shut, together with in rural America and concrete America and within the heartland of America. Nursing properties might be shut down and on a regular basis Individuals, kids, seniors.
Those that are struggling with disabilities might be damage as a part of the Republican effort to focus on, earn advantages like Social Safety and Medicare and to destroy Medicaid as we all know it. It is the Republican bait and swap. We are going to proceed to show it to the American individuals. Home Democrats need nothing to do with it.
And we’ll do every part in our energy to cease it.
Democrats have to pound this message day after day.
A number of the American individuals have been conned. Republicans aren’t going to do something about prices and inflation.As an alternative, they will take healthcare away from thousands and thousands of individualsor make healthcare far more costly.
Home Democrats are combating again, and they will make Republicans personal their bait and swap.
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