Hakeem Jeffries: “45% of the people of the Americans who are going to lose…”

“The five states that are most impacted by a failure to extend the Affordable Care act tax credits are West Virginia, Wyoming, Alaska, Mississippi and Tennessee. 45% of the people of the Americans who are going to lose health care or be at risk of losing health care if they don't on the other side of the aisle extend the Affordable Care act tax credits. 45% of them are registered Republicans, 35% registered Democrats and 20% unaffiliated or independent. This is not a partisan fight for us. It's a patriotic fight. You know, one of the people that I met early on during this Trump Republican shutdown came to Capitol hill was a 29 year old named Mariah Plant.” (16:12–16:39)

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