Hakeem Jeffries: “This is the same group of people who have tried to repeal…”

“It's to trigger, you know, closures of hospitals, nursing homes and community based health centers that are closing all across the country as a result of what they've done in their one big ugly bill. And Jonathan, This is the same group of people who have tried to repeal the Affordable Care act more than 70 different times over the last 15 years. These people are obsessed with ripping health care away from the American people, which is why we're going to go around them in terms of this discharge petition effort to …” (02:45–02:55)

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