LEADER JEFFRIES: "EVERY DAY THAT PASSES BY WITHOUT ACTION, THE REPUBLICAN HEALTHCARE CRISIS GETS EVEN WORSE"
Today, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries held a press conference where he pointed out that House and Senate Democrats position remain unified while Donald Trump and extreme MAGA Republicans continue to be missing in action in terms of making life better for the American people.
LEADER JEFFRIES: This is Day 20 of the Trump-Republican shutdown and Republicans have shown zero interest in reopening the government, enacting a bipartisan spending agreement that actually is designed to make life better for the American people and address the healthcare crisis that Republicans have created that is devastating people all across America. Our position as Democrats remains clear in the House and in the Senate. We need to reopen the government, and we need to do that now. We need to find a bipartisan path toward enacting a spending agreement that actually is designed to make life better for the American people, as opposed to hurting everyday Americans. And we need to decisively address the Republican healthcare crisis that is crushing people all across the country—working-class America, rural America, urban America, the heartland of America, small town America and Black and brown communities all across America.
The Republican healthcare crisis, as Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly indicated, is real and it’s having devastating impacts that are becoming increasingly apparent to the American people. In Idaho, 100,000 Americans are at risk of losing their healthcare if the Affordable Care Act tax credits expire because it will become unaffordable for them. In Georgia, Virginia and Maryland, people are now finding out that their health insurance premiums are about to increase, in some instances by more than $2,000 per month for a total of $24,000 per year. No one can afford those types of increases. In Alabama, it's now clear that at least 50 rural hospitals are at risk of closing because of what Republicans have done in devastating Medicaid in their One Big Ugly Bill. The Republican healthcare crisis is real. And every day that passes by without action, it gets even worse for hardworking American taxpayers.
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