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Hakeem Jeffries: “Democrats strongly oppose this legislation in the House…”

Featuring: Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic | U.S. House New York, 8th Congressional District

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Jeffries fires back against Republicans amid shutdown showdown

Published | Video Starts at 05:52

It's not adding or detracting anything. It's just continuing the levels of spending that currently exist. Actually, it's not at levels that we agreed to. Democrats strongly oppose this legislation in the House because in our view, it got veterans health care gut funding for Women Infants and children programming, gut funding for affordable housing. And we know we have just to make this clear country housing costs here. Though it's not funding for health care. It's not, it's not changing current levels. Nothing's getting cut. (05:52–06:04)

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Claims that the Republican bill cuts funding for veterans' healthcare, WIC, and affordable housing.

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