LEADER JEFFRIES: "THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY, AND THAT'S WHAT DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO DELIVER"
Today, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries held a press availability, where he emphasized that Democrats are committed to using taxpayer dollars to make life better for the American people and hold the Trump administration accountable for brutalizing everyday Americans.
LEADER JEFFRIES: Taxpayer dollars should be used to make life better for the American people, to drive down the high cost of living, to fix our broken healthcare system and to deliver a government that actually promotes the health, the safety and the economic well-being of the American people. Instead, Donald Trump and his administration have been using taxpayer dollars to brutalize everyday Americans, kill American citizens and violently target law-abiding immigrant families. It's unacceptable, it's unconscionable and it's un-American.
This administration continues to weaponize the Department of Justice, weaponize the Department for Homeland Security, weaponize the power of government to undermine the ability of everyday Americans to live their best life, because they're so consumed with jamming their right-wing extremism down the throats of the American people. We will not be intimidated by any of their actions. We will stay the course as it relates to making sure that we actually fund the government in a manner that is consistent with our values, consistent with the Constitution and consistent with the American way of life.
It's a big difference between the Trump administration, Republicans, on the one hand, and how Democrats want to spend your taxpayer dollars on the other. Republicans, in their One Big Ugly Bill, enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in American history, ripped healthcare away from more than 14 million Americans, and at the same period of time, took $186 billion from SNAP, literally stealing food from the mouths of hungry children, seniors and veterans. And in that same One Big Ugly Bill, use taxpayer dollars to give the Department of Homeland Security and ICE a slush fund that's been used to unleash a killing machine in Minneapolis, using taxpayer dollars, literally, to kill American citizens in cold blood.
That's what Republicans have done in their One Big Ugly Bill. That's their policy, and Democrats are going to continue to push back aggressively against it. We want to make sure that the Department of Homeland Security conducts itself in a manner that elevates public safety, not undermines it. And the American people are demanding accountability, and that's what Democrats are going to deliver.
Full press conference can be watched here.