Hakeem Jeffries slammed Donald Trump and Republicans for what he called a growing healthcare crisis, accusing the GOP of “zero interest” in helping Americans. Jeffries said Republicans have “run out of time,” arguing they’ve spent 60 days “stumbling, fumbling and bumbling” instead of offering solutions. He framed the inaction as worsening a crisis Republicans “created.”
00:00tax credits in just 30 days. Tens of millions of Americans are about to experience
00:06dramatically increased health care costs because of the Republican refusal to extend the Affordable
00:15Care Act tax credits. From the very beginning of this presidency, Republican control of the House
00:22and the Senate, as well as the administration, has been a disaster for the American people.
00:31These extremists promised all last year that costs were going to go down on day one. Costs
00:37haven't gone down in America. Costs have gone up. The Trump tariffs are increasing expenses on
00:44everyday Americans by thousands of dollars per year. Housing costs are out of control.
00:51Grocery costs are out of control. Child care costs are out of control. Electricity bills are through
00:59the roof. And now Republicans refuse to do a thing to prevent health care costs from dramatically
01:10increasing in a way that will deprive tens of millions of Americans of the ability to go see
01:19a doctor when they need one. Republicans have done nothing over the last several months to address the health care crisis
01:31that they have created. And they continue to refuse to take yes for an answer. Democrats have an active discharge
01:41discharge petition. And all we need are a handful of House Republicans to join us.
01:49And we can trigger an up or down vote on a three year extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits
01:56to save the health care of the American people in every single state in this country.
02:02And protect the health care of people who these so called Republican members allegedly represent, but who have failed to do a single thing to make their life better.
02:19Questions? Leader Jeffries, your Senate Democrat colleagues, they've previously expressed openness to reforming the credits, working through differences.
02:30Why do why propose a three year clean extension? Time has run out on Republican in action.
02:39They have done nothing over the last 60 days, but stumble, fumble and bumble as it relates to addressing the health care crisis that they've created.
02:51Understand that this year, House Republicans enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in American history.
03:00These extremists have thrown 14 million people off of Medicaid.
03:06At the same period of time, hospitals, nursing homes and community based health centers are closing all throughout the country,
03:15including in rural America because of what Republicans have done in their one big ugly bill.
03:21They've launched an unprecedented assault on the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute of Health,
03:30jeopardizing the well being of the American people. Vaccines are increasingly unavailable in the United States of America.
03:40Children are getting sick unnecessarily all across the country.
03:46And now on top of all of that, that parade of horribles, Republicans refuse to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits,
03:56which are going to expire this month. Time has run out on Republicans playing partisan games.
04:05We have a discharge petition that if it received an up or down vote in the House of Representatives,
04:14we are confident will pass. But obviously, Mike Johnson has zero interest in protecting the health care of the American people.
04:24Instead, these extremists are gutting the health care of the people that they represent, including in the state of Louisiana.
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