During a press briefing on Friday, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was asked about the departure of Elon Musk from the White House.
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00:00Leader Jeffries, do you think that Musk's departure will change anything with the White House?
00:04Do you think Doge will scale back? Is this a positive development for you?
00:10That's all an open question that needs to be evaluated over the next few weeks and next few months.
00:16Our position on a lot of the efforts of this Trump administration and what took place during the first 100 days remains clear.
00:24The first 100 days of the Trump administration and beyond throughout his presidency have been characterized by chaos, cruelty and corruption.
00:38And at this moment in time, we're going to do everything that we can to stop the GOP tax scam from ever becoming law because it hurts the American people.
00:50And beyond that, we'll continue to push back against the far right extremism that has been unleashed on the American people by the Trump administration in an extraordinary way,
01:06including efforts to dismantle the federal government as we know it, and the attacks on veterans in particular, which is unacceptable, unpatriotic, and un-American.
01:21So nothing has changed in that regard.
01:26We continue to push back whenever and wherever necessary against the extremism that Donald Trump and compliant Republicans in the House have unleashed on the American people.
01:39And to the extent that there are former members of the Trump administration, as has been the case now for years,
01:48that actually have a greater degree of clarity about the downsides of Trumpism in the United States of America,
01:59we welcome continued conversations with those former members.