Hakeem Jeffries

A group of people who promised to lower costs on day one, costs haven't gone down, they've gone up.

Trump tariffs are making life more expensive, thousands of dollars per year more in additional expenses.

There's also a group of people who said we were going to love and cherish Medicaid, and then they went out

and enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in American history.

A group of folks who have said they'll never touch Medicare, and now because of the one big ugly bill, they've triggered the possibility of the largest cut to Medicare

in the history of the country if congress doesn't act by the end of the year and so of course these folks have zero credibility on this issue which is why we need decisive action and by the way in the house republicans have voted to repeal the affordable care act more than seventy different times since two thousand and ten they are relentlessly obsessed

meaning these extremists on the other side of the aisle, with ripping healthcare away from the American people.

And so we think it's very reasonable for everyday Americans to be skeptical about any promises made by Republicans.

We don't need a wing and a prayer.

We need decisive legislative action.

People will be watching this and listening to this, hearing what you're saying and detecting that there is this deficit of trust between the two parties here.

And I don't think that engenders a lot of optimism because this gets solved anytime soon.

Is that misplaced?

Do you feel like there can be some comedy here somewhere?

Well, we're taking the Ronald Reagan approach to this particular situation from the standpoint of what needs to happen.

Trust, but verify.

And so, yeah, promises can be made, but we need verification.

That verification comes in the form of actual legislation, decisive legislative action.

to be able to address the Republican health care crisis.

But, you know, we're here each and every day.