Hakeem Jeffries: “Republicans have the House, the Senate and the presidency.”

“The problem that the country confronts right now is that Donald Trump and Republicans decided to shut the government down. Like what's unclear about the fact that Republicans have the House, the Senate and the presidency. And from the very beginning of this year, they've taken a my way or the highway approach, have steamrolled the country in all of the things jamming their right wing ideology down the throats of the American people.” (03:08–03:12)

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