At his press briefing, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) responded to President Trump's proposal for movie tariffs.
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00:00Thank you, Mr. Leader. Earlier today, Trump floated the idea of tariffs on foreign films.
00:05He says he has not come to a final decision, but in recent years, movies, TV shows, they have moved out of the United States.
00:11What policies or steps do you want to see from the federal or state level to help bring movies, TV shows, back to the United States,
00:17keep the new United States, whether it's Hollywood, Georgia, or New York?
00:20Well, the film and television tax credit that has existed for a while in New York has been an important part of continuing to sustain and grow.
00:30Domestic film and TV production, and I certainly think that using the tax code in that way is actually a positive way to incentivize as much production as possible in the United States of America.
00:45In terms of this idea or that idea that Donald Trump continues to throw out there, again, it's all a distraction from the fact that Donald Trump's first 100 days have been a debacle.
01:01He has failed the American people.
01:05The core promise that Donald Trump made and that Republicans made to the American people on the campaign trail repeatedly was that they were going to fix a broken economy and drive down the high cost of living.
01:21In fact, Donald Trump said that costs would go down on day one.
01:27The reason why he's the most unpopular president in modern American history after the first 100 days, despite all of the big talk of a mandate and the Democratic Party being in retreat,
01:41is that he has failed on the economy.
01:45And Republicans have failed on the economy, and so all the random stuff that gets thrown out there, which is not how policy should be made in a sound manner.
01:57All the random stuff that gets thrown out there, I mean, it's just hard to take it seriously, and it's hard to evaluate it outside of the context of Donald Trump trying to distract the American people from the fact that he's been a failure as president.
02:18The House Republicans are failing, they are completely in retreat, they are canceling committee hearings, they keep blowing through their own deadlines.
02:31Originally, this big, ugly bill was supposed to be enacted by early April.
02:40We're now in May, they're canceling hearings.
02:44They said, well, we're going to get this done by Memorial Day.
02:48That ain't happening either.
02:51And it's because the American people view these Republican policies as dangerous and harmful.
03:01And Republicans haven't figured out how to break away from being a rubber stamp for Trump's extreme agenda.
03:09And that's why we're seeing this level of paralysis.