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Home Democratic Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is placing his foot on the gasoline and driving house what appears to be like like a rising Democratic benefit as Donald Trump and Home Republicans crash the economic system.
Video of Jeffries:
Jeffries opened up a Monday press convention going:
Donald Trump and Home Republicans spent all of final 12 months promising to decrease the excessive value of dwelling in America whereas on the similar time frame operating away from Mission 2025 and pretending as if it did not exist. They constantly lied to the American folks, and now the American individuals are feeling the implications of this excessive administration, the Trump administration, this excessive President Donald Trump, and these excessive MAGA Republicans who’re quickly within the majority within the Home of Representatives.
This 12 months, Republicans have finished nothing, not a single factor, to decrease the excessive value of dwelling in the US of America.
The price of dwelling is simply too excessive. Housing prices are too excessive. Grocery prices are too excessive. Insurance coverage prices are too excessive. Utility prices are too excessive. Childcare prices are too excessive. America is simply too costly, and Democrats stay dedicated to driving down the excessive value of dwelling in the US of America as a substitute, as a substitute of prices happening, which Donald Trump promised would occur on day certainly one of his presidency. Prices aren’t happening. They are going up. Inflation goes up. Donald Trump and Republicans are literally crashing the economic system in actual time. You possibly can’t make this up. They’re deliberately inflicting ache on the American folks.
Jeffries is appropriate on all counts, however let’s look just a little deeper and see if we will acquire perception into the potential for the GOP Home majority to be non permanent.
