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Finally, we're seeing Democrats push back against MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives. The Democratic minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, held a press conference, and here's what he had to say about MAGA extremists. Let's play it.
I think that includes wall funding, given that the president previously said that the wall would be paid for by Mexico. What we've seen repeatedly amongst my extreme ag of Republican colleagues is that they say one thing to the American people before the election and then do something different after the election. The House Republicans said.
they were going to protect social security and medicare and so did their presidential nominee and now we learned after the election that house republicans are planning to try to cut medicare and social security and end it as we know it. House Republicans said before the election that they were focused on improving the quality of life of working class Americans.
But after the election, they're focused on tax cuts for the wealthy, the well-off, and the well-connected.
Then Democratic Congress member Hakeem Jeffries continued and talked about the only mandate that really exists after this election is that people are worried about the prices of things and the MAGA policies are only going to raise people's prices. Play this clip.
With the election behind us and considering it's now already the end of the year, how do you envision the future of Democratic Party?
Well, we look forward to continuing to do the people's business in the new Congress. And as we've repeatedly indicated, we're going to fight hard to make a difference in the lives of the American people. To the extent that there was any mandate that has emerged from this most recent election, it is that the American people want us to work hard to lower the high cost of living.
and to bring down grocery prices, gas prices, the cost of childcare, and housing costs. And that will be a focus of House Democrats as we move forward.
Let's talk about what Hakeem Jeffries also said during this press conference. He said, look, all these MAGA Republicans, this is going to be a very, very close majority to House Republicans to Democrats. 217 to 215 right now after Democrats flipped some red seats blue. Take a look at what Democratic Congressmember Hakeem Jeffries says here. Let's play the clip.
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