DPCC Co-Chair Jeffries Exposes President Trump’s Raw Deal
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, Co-Chair of the House Democratic Policy & Communications Committee (DPCC), appeared on CNN's State of the Union to discuss the raw deal President Trump and Congressional Republicans are handing down to the American people. While Republicans are focused on chaos, crisis, and confusion, Democrats are focused on A Better Deal: better jobs, better wages, and a better future. Below are excerpts from the interview and a link to the video.
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"Trump has historically low approval ratings. The Congressional Republicans' have an even lower rating. [The President] doesn't have an agenda to run on. He can't talk about the GOP tax scam – it was a failure. 83 percent of the benefits go to the wealthiest 1 percent. He can't talk about TrumpCare – an incredibly unpopular effort to take away 23 million Americans' health care. He can't talk about the fake infrastructure plan, which would do nothing to fix our nation's bridges, roads, and tunnels. He can't talk about his own budget, where he threatened to cut $2 trillion from Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare…[Democrats] want to strengthen the Affordable Care Act. We want to lower the cost of prescription drugs. We want to make middle class tax cuts permanent. And we want to invest $1 trillion dollars in infrastructure."
"A lot of attention is focused on the chaos, crisis, and confusion of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue – that takes up a lot of air. But at the end of the day, [Democrats] have rolled out for the last several months A Better Deal economic agenda focused on better jobs, better wages, and a better future for the American people. If we are given the opportunity to govern, we are going to strengthen the Affordable Health Care Act, keep what works, adjust and fix what doesn't. We're going to dramatically lower the cost of prescription drugs. We're going to invest $1 trillion in infrastructure and create 16 million good pay jobs. We're going to strengthen Social Security and Medicare. These are all things Conor Lamb and Doug Jones successfully ran on."