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Hakeem Jeffries: “They spent the whole year implementing the toxic parts, the…”

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

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House Democratic Leader Jeffries Holds News Conference on Day 41 of Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 05:44

So of course there's reason to be deeply skeptical of the administration and their motives as it relates to the hard working federal civil servants and the federal workforce. And we will continue to be deeply skeptical of their intentions. They spent the whole year implementing the toxic parts, the, the most toxic parts of Project 2025 after lying to the American people last year saying they didn't know anything about Project 2025. And part of that has been going after the federal workforce. So we'll see what the language looks like. (05:44–05:59)

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Asserts that the administration implemented parts of Project 2025 after denying knowledge of it.

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