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Hakeem Jeffries tells House Republicans, 'We're not paying the ransom note'
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/21/2194649/-Hakeem-Jeffries-breaks-down-the-Republican-shutdownHakeem Jeffries tells House Republicans, 'We're not paying the ransom note'
Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 4:10:20p EDT
Walter Einenkel
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After taking a few questions about Republicans’ weak attempts at shading Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Jeffries went back to the real issue at hand: the impending Republican shutdown of the government. And he pulled no punches.
We've seen this done before. The Republicans shut down the government, partially, twice in the 1990s. Why? Because they wanted to end Medicaid as we know it. Bill Clinton and Democrats to the rescue, to stop that from happening. Same group of people, different version, in 2013, shut the government down for 14 days. Why? Again, jam their extreme right-wing ideology down the throats of the American people.
In that instance, they wanted President Obama to repeal his signature legislative accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act, and throw 20 million people or so off the rolls, and deprive them of health care. Like we were going to agree to that ransom note. Once again, Democrats to the rescue. Two-thousand-eighteen into nineteen—same thing. They shut the government down for 35 days. By the way, when the government shutdown began, Donald Trump was president. Republicans controlled the House and the Senate in December of 2018. They shut themselves down. That's how much it's in their DNA.
That time, what was the extreme ransom note? We want you to waste billions of dollars of taxpayer money to fund Trump's ineffective, medieval border wall. Once again we held firm, refused to pay their ransom note, and we were able to get the government reopened.
Why are we going down this road again? We know how it's going to end. We're not paying a ransom note so you can jam your extreme ideology down the throats of the American people and hurt everyday Americans. We never have and we never will.
In that instance, they wanted President Obama to repeal his signature legislative accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act, and throw 20 million people or so off the rolls, and deprive them of health care. Like we were going to agree to that ransom note. Once again, Democrats to the rescue. Two-thousand-eighteen into nineteen—same thing. They shut the government down for 35 days. By the way, when the government shutdown began, Donald Trump was president. Republicans controlled the House and the Senate in December of 2018. They shut themselves down. That's how much it's in their DNA.
That time, what was the extreme ransom note? We want you to waste billions of dollars of taxpayer money to fund Trump's ineffective, medieval border wall. Once again we held firm, refused to pay their ransom note, and we were able to get the government reopened.
Why are we going down this road again? We know how it's going to end. We're not paying a ransom note so you can jam your extreme ideology down the throats of the American people and hurt everyday Americans. We never have and we never will.
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