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‘They Haven’t Done A Damn Thing’: Hakeem Jeffries Rips Trump Administration For Failed Promise To Lower Living Costs
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6/13/2025
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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Good morning everyone. From the very beginning of this Congress, House Democrats have made clear
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that we will work with anyone in this town who's interested in making life better for the American
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people. House Democrats believe that America is too expensive. We're committed to lowering
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housing costs, child care costs, grocery costs, insurance costs, and utility costs.
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There are far too many people in the United States of America who are struggling to live
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paycheck to paycheck. That should not happen in the wealthiest country in the history of
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the world. Republicans and Donald Trump spent all of last year promising to lower the high
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cost of living. They haven't done a damn thing to do it. Not a single thing. Trump promised
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that costs in America would go down on day one. Costs aren't going down. They're going
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up. Inflation is on the way up. Our credit rating as a country has been downgraded. The bond
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markets are having an adverse reaction to Trump's presidency. The Trump tariffs are going to increase
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cost on everyday Americans by thousands of dollars a year. Donald Trump and House Republicans are
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crashing the American economy and are driving us toward a recession. Yet House Republicans,
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later on this afternoon, are going to put forward a reckless rescissions package that's going to undermine
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the United States of America's national security, hurt our ability to protect the American
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people in terms of their health, their safety, and their well-being. Including by going after a George W. Bush
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bipartisan initiative that has saved thousands, actually hundreds of thousands, actually
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millions of lives across the world by combating the HIV and AIDS crisis. And yet Republicans want to rip
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billions of dollars away from America's efforts to keep her people safe and secure.
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to satisfy some extreme ideological crusade related to a deeply unpopular effort, formerly led by Elon Musk
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to devastate the American way of life.
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And in all likelihood, every single House Republican, despite the claims that there's some anxiety, will cave
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to Donald Trump and vote for the reckless Republican rescissions package. House Republicans aren't interested in
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functioning like a separate and co-equal branch of government and holding the Trump administration accountable
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for its extremism. House Republicans will continue
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to behave like nothing more than a reckless rubber stamp
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for Donald Trump's extreme agenda.
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just like they did yesterday, and they'll do the same thing today in voting to cut programs
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that are important when it comes to protecting the health, the safety, the national security,
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and the economic well-being of the American people.
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