Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries decried what he known as the “poisonous bait-and-switch” of President Donald Trump’s management on ABC Information’ “This Week” on Sunday.
“Donald Trump and Republicans persistently promised that they had been going to decrease the excessive value of dwelling, and so they’ve executed the precise reverse,” Jeffries advised co-anchor Jonathan Karl. “They’ve proven no real interest in reducing prices in america of America, that are too excessive.”
Jeffries stated the Trump administration has “damaged their promise” to Individuals, and accused them of getting “no real interest in bettering the standard of lifetime of exhausting working American taxpayers.”
“As an alternative, what they’re making an attempt to do whereas they distract the American individuals is to jam the GOP tax rip-off down the throats of individuals all throughout this nation, all in service of huge tax cuts for his or her billionaire donors and rich companies,” he continued. “It is a poisonous bait-and-switch that’s underway, and we’ll proceed to push again forcefully.”
Democratic Minority Chief Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on “This Week.”
ABC Information
Whereas Jeffries blasted his Republican counterparts, Speaker Mike Johnson has asserted Democrats are “flailing,” saying they “haven’t any clear chief.”
However Democratic Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia has additionally advised the celebration is and not using a clear chief. “We’re nonetheless searching for that nationwide spokesperson,” Beyer advised Axios. “And it might be that Hakeem turns into that nationwide voice. … It hasn’t occurred but.”
Requested to reply to that, Jeffries stated it was his “honor to be Home Democratic chief.”
“We’ll proceed to work collectively in an all-hands-on-deck effort to push again in opposition to the far-right extremism that’s being unleashed on this nation with file velocity,” he stated. “We’re pushing again forcefully in opposition to these efforts every single day, each week, each month, yearly, and that may proceed.”
Through the interview, Jeffries additionally stated he was “very involved” by the Division of Justice dropping the bribery case in opposition to New York Mayor Eric Adams.
“Mayor Adams has a duty to persuade the individuals of New York Metropolis that he’ll have the ability to proceed to control in a fashion that places their finest pursuits first always, and that he is not merely taking orders from a Trump administration, a Trump Division of Justice, or Trump officers who would not have the very best pursuits of town of New York at coronary heart,” stated Jeffries, who represents a Brooklyn district within the Home.
“This Division of Justice shouldn’t be selling regulation and order — it is selling lawlessness and dysfunction,” he added. “And that is been in keeping with what we have seen from the Trump administration from the very starting.”
For example of this, Jeffries pointed to the mass pardoning of convicted Jan. 6 rioters “who attacked and brutally beat cops after which had been launched again into communities all throughout the nation, threatening public security.”
Lots of the pardoned rioters “have intensive legal information for issues like home violence, weapons costs which might be severe and rape,” he added.
“This isn’t an administration that’s dedicated to the protection of the American individuals. They proceed to undermine it and flood the zone with chaos,” he stated.
