Hakeem Jeffries: “Democrats have been very clear that we will sit down with…”

“That's $24,000 on families that make an average of $63,000 per year. That's impossible for anyone to sustain. And so, of course, Donald Trump should come to the negotiating table. And Democrats have been very clear that we will sit down with any of them, anytime, any place here at the Capitol or back at the White House, to reopen the government. to support our hardworking federal employees, to enact the spending agreement that makes life better for the American people, while at the same time decisively addressing the Republican health care crisis that even Marjorie Taylor Greene acknowledges is devastating the American people.” (14:13–14:24)

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