Hakeem Jeffries: “House Democrats have introduced a discharge petition. We now…”

“That seems to have petered now, like what is the status of that? Is there any motion on the House side at least to extend these subsidies? Well, on the House side of course, House Democrats have introduced a discharge petition. We now have 213 signatures. which basically means we just need a handful of these House Republicans, these so called moderate Republicans who spent months claiming that as soon as the Trump shutdown ended they were prepared to work together with us to extend the Affordable Care act tax credits.” (03:33–03:39)

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