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LEADER JEFFRIES: "DEMOCRATS CONTINUE TO IMPROVE THE ECONOMY FOR EVERYDAY AMERICANS"

January 26, 2023

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) held his weekly press conference where he highlighted how House Democrats have stayed committed to securing lower costs, better-paying jobs and safer communities for everyday Americans while extreme MAGA Republicans try to raise taxes on the middle class and destroy Social Security and Medicare.

 

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Leader Hakeem Jeffries addresses press

 

JEFFRIES: There's a big contrast between House Democrats and House Republicans, between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. Between Team Normal and Team Extreme. What Team Normal is doing, the Democrats, led by President Biden, is to continue to improve the American economy for everyday Americans. 

 

Here's the Biden track record on the economy: economic growth is up, inflation is down. Wages are up, gas prices are down. Job creation is up, more than 10 million good-paying jobs created during President Biden's first two years, a record in modern American history. And small business startups have grown by the largest number during President Biden's first two years in office than at any other point in recorded in American history. The Democrats, Team Normal, delivering for everyday Americans. 

 

What are the Republicans doing? Team Extreme? The team consisting of extremists who are willing to detonate the American economy, blow up Social Security and Medicare and impose a 30% sales tax on the hardworking people of America? You can't make this stuff up. That's what they want to do. A 30% sales tax on the American people. What would be the consequences of that? It would be a tax hike on 90% of everyday Americans, while at the same time cutting taxes for the wealthiest 1% in America. That's what they're spending their time doing. Team Extreme. Extreme MAGA Republicans. 

 

And by the way, they want to lecture us – lecture us about fiscal responsibility. 25% of the nation's debt was incurred during the four years of the Trump presidency. We've been around this great country of ours for 247 years. But Team Extreme, extreme MAGA Republicans. They want to lecture the country on fiscal responsibility, when 25% of the nation's debt incurred during four years of the Trump presidency? What's Team Normal's record? What is the Biden administration's record on fiscal responsibility? We cut the deficit by $1.7 trillion in the last two years. Another record in American history. 

 

The full press conference can be watched here.