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Hakeem Jeffries: “The notion that eight Republican senators signed off by John…”

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

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House Democrats Speak To Press Before Rules Debate

Published | Video Starts at 18:07

House Democrats are going to offer an amendment before the Rules Committee to get that self dealing sick provision out of the spending agreement. The notion that eight Republican senators signed off by John Thune and the Republicans apparently in the Senate and in the House would give themselves the ability essentially to rip millions of taxpayer dollars away from the American people so they could line their pockets because these people were insurrectionist sympathizers is insanity. And we're going to tattoo that provision just like we're going to tattoo the Republican health care crisis on the foreheads of every single House Republican who dares vote who for this bill. (18:07–18:33)

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Asserts that a provision allows Republican senators to potentially misuse taxpayer dollars.

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