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Hakeem Jeffries: “There's no viable path forward that Republicans in the House…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 12:09

And then with great urgency, these Republican extremists enacted massive tax breaks for their billionaire donors and skyrocketed the debt by more than $3 trillion. And they made those massive tax breaks permanent. And now There's no viable path forward that Republicans in the House or the Senate have put forth to address the fact that the Affordable Care act tax credits are expiring. I mean, the time has long passed to do anything other than move forward with the legislation. That will be triggered by the discharge petition that House Democrats have filed that has every single House Democrat on it. (12:09–12:20)

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Asserts that Republicans have not proposed a solution for expiring ACA tax credits.

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