Pete Aguilar Accuses GOP Of 'Shielding Jeffrey Epstein And His Associates' With Block Of Vote

At a House Democratic press briefing on Tuesday, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) spoke about Jeffrey Epstein.

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00:00I'm grateful to be joined today by DCCC Chair Susan Del Bene and the Vice

00:06Chair Ted Lieu. At the DCCC today we had a productive caucus meeting across the

00:13street. Donald Trump promised to lower costs on day one. We're six months into

00:19this Trump administration and prices are rising because of reckless tariffs,

00:23inflation is still too high, and now health care costs are going to skyrocket.

00:29For the 24 million Americans who rely on the Affordable Care Act, health insurance

00:34will go up by as much as 75 percent. And these price hikes don't even include the

00:40tax credits that Republicans are going to let expire. So even more Americans are

00:45going to see higher costs and could lose their health care coverage. Democrats have

00:50been warning about the dangers of the Republican cuts to Medicaid leading to

00:55higher prices for everyone. The American people were told that Donald Trump and

01:00Republicans were going to turn the economy around and prioritize families. But that

01:06couldn't be further from the truth. They've spent the last six months putting

01:11more money in billionaires pockets and cutting health care. But they did make

01:17private jets tax deductible. So there's that. They're even shielding Jeffrey Epstein

01:23and his associates, including the president of the United States, from

01:26accountability, despite promising for years to release the files that implicate

01:32those involved. At a time when family budgets are stretched thin, Republicans are

01:36only prioritizing the needs of billionaires. It's not just bad policy that will make the

01:43economy worse. It's a slap in the face to working people who voted to bring down costs.