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Home Democratic Chief Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has been pushing again towards 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 ground:
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 achieved nothing to decrease the excessive value of dwelling, not a single factor, not a single invoice, not a single thought, not a single proposal from my Home Republican colleagues to do something concerning the excessive value of dwelling 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 huge 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. Identical plan. Nothing to drive down the excessive value of dwelling. Every part is about huge tax cuts for billionaires and rich companies. Who in lots of instances aren’t even asking for it. They usually definitely do not want the reduction that on a regular basis People want.
That working-class People want. That middle-class People want. That every one these individuals who aspire to be half of the middle-class want. It is a Republican bait-and-switch.
What is the closing component of the Republican bait and swap?
Enact these huge tax cuts for billionaires and rich companies and stick working class People with the invoice.
The nerve of this group of individuals who spent all final 12 months lecturing the nation about how they had 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 component of the Republican bait and swap, stick working-class People 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. When it comes to what’s proposed, the cuts to Medicaid, that shall be devastating. Hospitals will shut, together with in rural America and concrete America and within the heartland of America. Nursing properties shall be shut down and on a regular basis People, youngsters, seniors.
Those that are struggling with disabilities shall 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 folks. Home Democrats need nothing to do with it.
And we will do every little thing in our energy to cease it.
Democrats must pound this message day after day.
A few of the American folks had been conned. Republicans aren’t going to do something about prices and inflation. As an alternative, they’ll take healthcare away from tens of millions of individuals or make healthcare way more costly.
Home Democrats are preventing again, and they’ll make Republicans personal their bait and swap.
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