LEADER JEFFRIES: "FREEDOM IS UNDER ASSAULT BY THE EXTREME MAGA REPUBLICANS"
Washington, DC – Today, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries held a press conference where he highlighted that House Democrats will continue to defend every American's freedom and protect our national security while extreme MAGA Republicans continue to try to turn back the clock.
LEADER JEFFRIES: Freedom is under assault here in America and around the world. As House Democrats, we believe in a woman's freedom to make her own reproductive health care decisions, and we strongly oppose any effort by extreme MAGA Republicans to criminalize abortion care, impose a nationwide ban, target women and physicians and medical professionals across the country and try to impose government- mandated pregnancies, even in instances where there's been rape or incest. Freedom is under assault by the extreme MAGA Republicans, and ground zero at the moment is in Florida where there is a ban that will impact millions of women in the state of Florida and throughout the Deep South. Because up until this point, Florida was perhaps the only state in the southeastern part of the country where a woman could seek reproductive health care. Freedom is under assault. House Democrats are defending it. Extreme MAGA Republicans are determined to undermine it. Donald Trump and everyone who blindly follows him are responsible for what is taking place in this country a result of the fall of Roe v Wade and the attacks on freedom that have been underway ever since.
Freedom under assault in America, freedom under assault across the world, particularly in Ukraine, which is why it was so critically important that we worked together to get the national security legislation that was bipartisan and comprehensive over the finish line and defeated the pro-Putin Republicans, who were determined to undermine America's national security, undermine freedom and democracy throughout the world and undermine American leadership in a way that would have hurt the safety and security of the American people perhaps for decades to come, if Vladimir Putin and Russian aggression were allowed to prevail. Freedom under assault in America. Freedom under assault throughout the world. Freedom will be on the ballot in November.
Full press conference can be watched here.