Hakeem Jeffries, at a press conference with Sylvia Garcia on ICE and affordability, says the "one big ugly bill" ripped Medicaid away from Americans and made the largest cut to nutritional assistance in American history. He says the same bill's ICE money is being used to "brutalize and kill American citizens and law-abiding immigrant communities," calling it "unacceptable, unconscionable, and un-American." He says House Democrats are committed to turning the situation around.
The receipt
- Who
- Hakeem Jeffries
- Where
- briefing - press conference on ICE and affordability at SEIU headquarters in Hou
- Original footage
- Forbes Breaking News · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 47 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
The one big ugly bill ripped away Medicaid from the American people. The one big ugly bill enacted the largest cut to nutritional assistance, $186 billion in American history. And at the same period of time gave ICE a $75 billion slush fund so that these taxpayer dollars could be used to brutalize and kill American citizens and law -abiding immigrant communities. It's unacceptable, unconscionable, and un -American. And as House Democrats, we're committed to getting the situation turned around. We know we have a broken immigration system.
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