During his weekly press briefing, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke about the proposed GOP reconciliation package and potential cuts to Medicaid and Social Security.
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00:00Questions? Good morning, thank you. No mic today? No mic today. We're short on Cruz.
00:09He's another guy there. In any event, obviously you guys are arguing against the reconciliation
00:15package. If you guys aren't able to convince voters to get to these Republicans, get to the
00:22president, say, you know, kill this bill, will you have failed in that mission? No. Why not?
00:27Our objective is to find four Republicans to do the right thing to stop the largest cut to Medicaid
00:38in American history, which will hurt families, hurt children, hurt seniors, hurt people with
00:44disabilities, hurt veterans, and hurt everyday Americans. And if Republicans are successful
00:51in jamming down an extreme budget into signature, into law, then they own that. It's
01:03on them. They're the ones that claim they have some big, bold, beautiful mandate. They have
01:07no mandate to end Social Security as we know it. They have no mandate to dramatically cut
01:15the health care of the American people. They have no mandate to take food out of the mouths of
01:21children. And at the end of the day, if they successfully jam this reckless budget down the
01:26throat to the American people, the voters will hold them accountable.
01:31Thanks.
01:32I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So please, let's keep going.
01:33So please, let's just make sure that we no matter what we are letting people from the
01:35up to the country go to the public.
01:37We'll show you here.
01:37Just don't say that we have a big focus on the right thing.
01:39We're going to want to make sure to be a good focus on everyone.
01:41Let's look.
01:43You've got a little bit more cautious to each other than you can get thejęs.
01:46I know, let's look.
01:48You guys, I know, let's look.
01:49Be honest.
01:50I know.
01:51I know.
01:53You can see that that's what this is.
01:54I hope you'll be doing.
01:55Yeah.
01:56I know.
01:57You can see thatлерone's given my mind to go down to the end of the