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Hakeem Jeffries: “The path forward that has the greatest number of votes in…”

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

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Hakeem Jeffries Press Conference

Published | Video Starts at 10:49

Are you encouraging Senator Schumer to look at other options as opposed to the three year clean extension that he currently announced, which is not expected to get 60 votes in the Senate? The path forward that has the greatest number of votes in both the House and the Senate is a three year extension of the Affordable Care act tax credits. Time has run out. Republicans have been promising all year that they were going to get to addressing the health care crisis that they themselves have created. (10:49–10:59)

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Asserts that a three-year ACA tax credit extension has the most legislative support.

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