‘They Haven’t Done A Damn Thing’: Hakeem Jeffries Rips Trump Administration For Failed Promise To Lower Living Costs

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During Thursday’s press briefing, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) slammed the Trump Administration for their failed promise to lower living costs for Americans.

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00:00Good morning everyone. From the very beginning of this Congress, House Democrats have made clear

00:07that we will work with anyone in this town who's interested in making life better for the American

00:14people. House Democrats believe that America is too expensive. We're committed to lowering

00:22housing costs, child care costs, grocery costs, insurance costs, and utility costs.

00:28There are far too many people in the United States of America who are struggling to live

00:33paycheck to paycheck. That should not happen in the wealthiest country in the history of

00:40the world. Republicans and Donald Trump spent all of last year promising to lower the high

00:48cost of living. They haven't done a damn thing to do it. Not a single thing. Trump promised

00:56that costs in America would go down on day one. Costs aren't going down. They're going

01:03up. Inflation is on the way up. Our credit rating as a country has been downgraded. The bond

01:14markets are having an adverse reaction to Trump's presidency. The Trump tariffs are going to increase

01:24cost on everyday Americans by thousands of dollars a year. Donald Trump and House Republicans are

01:32crashing the American economy and are driving us toward a recession. Yet House Republicans,

01:42later on this afternoon, are going to put forward a reckless rescissions package that's going to undermine

01:52the United States of America's national security, hurt our ability to protect the American

02:00people in terms of their health, their safety, and their well-being. Including by going after a George W. Bush

02:12bipartisan initiative that has saved thousands, actually hundreds of thousands, actually

02:21millions of lives across the world by combating the HIV and AIDS crisis. And yet Republicans want to rip

02:38billions of dollars away from America's efforts to keep her people safe and secure.

02:52to satisfy some extreme ideological crusade related to a deeply unpopular effort, formerly led by Elon Musk

03:05to devastate the American way of life.

03:11And in all likelihood, every single House Republican, despite the claims that there's some anxiety, will cave

03:19to Donald Trump and vote for the reckless Republican rescissions package. House Republicans aren't interested in

03:31functioning like a separate and co-equal branch of government and holding the Trump administration accountable

03:39for its extremism. House Republicans will continue

03:44to behave like nothing more than a reckless rubber stamp

03:50for Donald Trump's extreme agenda.

03:52just like they did yesterday, and they'll do the same thing today in voting to cut programs

04:04that are important when it comes to protecting the health, the safety, the national security,

04:12and the economic well-being of the American people.

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