Hakeem Jeffries: “House Republicans running around this town acting like…”

“Because the framers of this Constitution designed the Article 1 branch, the Congress, to be the first amongst equals. That's not how House Republicans have been acting from the very beginning of this Congress. Instead, House Republicans running around this town acting like nothing more than a reckless rubber stamp to Donald Trump's extreme agenda. And that's what's happening right now. Because what House Republicans want to do is to continue to fund Donald Trump's violent, extreme, mass deportation machine that has resulted in the death of at least three American citizens.” (07:51–08:00)

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