DPCC Co-Chair Jeffries Featured on CSPAN’s Newsmakers
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, Co-Chair of the House Democratic Policy & Communications Committee (DPCC), was featured on CSPAN's Newsmakers to discuss A Better Deal and other key developments in Congress including immigration policy, tax cuts, and health care legislation. Below are excerpts from the interview. Click here to watch the video
"A better deal economic agenda for the American people focused on better jobs and a better future dealing with higher payer, lower cost, tools for the 21st century economy. Under the low cost umbrella, we do have to deal with the cost of health care and prescriptions drugs for everyday Americans. The initial economic agenda lays out ways that we can deal with the lowering costs of prescription drugs, but we need to tackle the broader health care dynamic moving forward. It was always understood that the first step we need to take is to kill the reckless effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. That is not where the American people are at."
"The Leadership in the House and the Senate want to jam a raw deal down the throats of the American people when it comes to so-called tax reform. They want primarily tax cuts for the wealthy and well-off to support the lifestyles of the rich and shameless, benefit special interests and corporations in a way that will leave behind working families, middle-class folks, and those who aspire to be a part of it. We are offering a better deal as Democrats. We want tax cuts that benefit working families in the middle class. We want the tax code to incentivize corporations to create good-paying American jobs in this country that will allow people to provide a comfortable living for their families. That is the contrast….Tax reform [should] benefit the majority of Americans, not the privileged few, it should benefit working families, not the wealthy and well-off."