Hakeem Jeffries Reacts To Senate Passing 'Far More Conservative' Version Of Big Beautiful Bill

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was asked to respond to the Big Beautiful Bill "becoming more conservative" in the Senate-passed version.

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00:00Questions?

00:01Thank you, Mr. Chair.

00:02Leader, the bill that the Senate is sending back is far more conservative than the bill that House Republicans passed before Memorial Day.

00:11What's your reaction to some of the provisions?

00:14You already disliked them in the House version.

00:17What's your reaction to the bill becoming more conservative as it returns back to the House for you all to try to defend against it?

00:23Why would any so-called traditional Republican, particularly those who are in swing seats all across America,

00:34vote for a bill that will aggressively and actively hurt their constituents?

00:41Senate Republican bill that's been sent back over to the House doesn't make anything better

00:52in an already flawed bill that emerged in late May from the House of Representatives

00:59and limped over to the Senate by a single vote.

01:02Why would anyone who claims to be concerned about protecting their constituents from these devastating Medicaid and health care cuts

01:12vote for Donald Trump's one big, ugly bill?

01:16It's perplexing, and we're going to make this case strongly before the Rules Committee

01:22and on the floor of the House of Representatives.

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