Speaking at a press briefing, Hakeem Jeffries says the bill cut $186 billion from nutritional assistance and gave ICE $75 billion, which he calls a "slush fund." He says the cuts paid for "massive tax breaks to billionaire MAGA donors."
The receipt
- Who
- Hakeem Jeffries
- Where
- briefing - press conference after the election
- Original footage
- Rep. Jeffries · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 50 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 430 on Instagram
Read the transcript
Or what could you do about that? We're going to have to take a look at the one big ugly bill, which was a disaster for the American people. The largest cut to Medicaid in American history, a $186 billion cut to nutritional assistance, literally ripping food away from the mouths of hungry children, veterans, and seniors. billionaires, ICE was given a $75 billion slush fund so that mass agents could brutalize and kill American citizens and violently target law -abiding immigrant communities. That's unacceptable. And all of this was done in order to provide massive tax breaks to billionaire MAGA donors.
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