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Hakeem Jeffries: “The legislation that has the greatest amount of support in…”

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

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In fact, Donald Trump and his administration were apparently prepared to put forth a proposal that Mike Johnson and House Republican leaders detonated because they have no interest in keeping health care affordable. The legislation that has the greatest amount of support in the Congress right now, both House and Senate, is a clean three-year extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits. We believe that the American people deserve a similar level of certainty that Republicans provided to their billionaire donors when they made those massive tax breaks permanent in the one big ugly bill. (14:42–14:54)

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Asserts that a clean three-year extension of ACA tax credits has the most support in Congress.

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