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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 yr, all we heard from my Republican colleagues was the necessity to do one thing in regards to the excessive value of residing whereas on the similar time they ran away from Venture 2025 as if it did not exist. This yr, Republicans have spent all of their time implementing essentially the most excessive elements of Venture 2025 and have carried out nothing to decrease the excessive value of residing, not a single factor, not a single invoice, not a single concept, not a single proposal from my Home Republican colleagues to do something in regards to the excessive value of residing in the USA 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 large tax cuts for billionaires and rich companies, similar to they did in 2017, when the GOP tax rip-off was handed, the place they set in movement laws the place 83 p.c 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. Similar plan. Nothing to drive down the excessive value of residing. All the things is about large tax cuts for billionaires and rich companies. Who in lots of instances aren’t even asking for it. And so they definitely do not want the reduction 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 ultimate factor of the Republican bait and swap?
Enact these large tax cuts for billionaires and rich companies and stick working class Individuals with the invoice.
The nerve of this group of individuals who spent all final yr lecturing the nation about how they have been going to do one thing to drive down the excessive value of residing, do nothing about it, Home Republicans are planning to enact large tax cuts for his or her billionaire buddies, after which, as the ultimate factor of the Republican bait and swap, stick working-class Individuals with the invoice.
Home Republicans haven’t 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. When it comes to what’s proposed, the cuts to Medicaid, that can be devastating. Hospitals will shut, together with in rural America and concrete America and within the heartland of America. Nursing properties can be shut down and on a regular basis Individuals, youngsters, seniors.
Those that are struggling with disabilities can be harm 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 reveal it to the American individuals. Home Democrats need nothing to do with it.
And we’ll do the whole lot in our energy to cease it.
Democrats must pound this message day after day.
A few of the American individuals have been conned. Republicans aren’t going to do something about prices and inflation. As an alternative, they’ll take healthcare away from hundreds of thousands of individuals or make healthcare rather more costly.
Home Democrats are preventing again, and they’ll make Republicans personal their bait and swap.
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