LEADER JEFFRIES: "THE PRIORITIES OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ARE ALL SCREWED UP"
Today, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries held a press conference where he highlighted how Donald Trump and Republicans continue to work against the best interests of hardworking American taxpayers, including waging an illegal war of choice in the Middle East.
LEADER JEFFRIES: Yesterday, House Democrats launched a discharge petition to force an up or down vote to make sure that we are paying TSA agents, paying the Coast Guard, supporting FEMA and supporting cybersecurity professionals who are working hard to keep us safe. There is no reason why the parts of the Department of Homeland Security that have been shut down by Republicans several weeks ago remains shuttered or that individuals like TSA agents have been forced for more than a month to work without pay.
Republicans have consistently refused, at this point in time, to enact the type of bold, meaningful, and dramatic changes to ICE that are necessary to get ICE under control. Our position remains the same. Taxpayer dollars should be used to make life more affordable for the American people in the midst of an affordability crisis where life has become more expensive for everyday Americans because of failed Republican policies. And yet Republicans have decided that they would rather spend billions of dollars to unleash masked and untrained ICE agents to brutalize American communities and violently target law-abiding immigrant families, and at the same time are now spending billions of dollars on a reckless war of choice to drop bombs in the Middle East. But these same extremists in Congress and within the administration, starting with the President, can't find a dime to make life more affordable for the American people or to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits so that 20 million Americans of every political persuasion can afford to go see a doctor when they need one.
The priorities of the Trump administration and Republicans are all screwed up. They're focused on unleashing ICE brutality, enacting massive tax breaks for their billionaire donors and spending billions of dollars to drop bombs in the Middle East. But they don't give a damn about making life better for the American people. Democrats are going to continue to focus our efforts on driving down the high cost of living, fixing our broken healthcare system, making sure that immigration enforcement in this country is fair, just and humane and that we actually are focused on lifting up the quality of life of working class Americans, middle class Americans and everyday Americans, not the wealthy, the well off and the well-connected, which is what has been the obsession of the Republican Party.
Full event can be watched here.