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

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House Dems Press Avail on Ending Trump's Reckless War

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And for it to be successful, we only need a handful of Republicans like Mike Lawlor, Nicole Malliotakis or others to join House Democrats. So we can end the madness. Now, how many more Republicans do you We only need, assuming we hold the two Republicans that we had a few weeks ago, Don Bacon and Warren Davison, an additional one or two Republicans, and we can pass this War Powers Resolution upon our return. Thank you all for joining us. Curious, what are your thoughts about how this morning played out to perform a session with some of your colleagues, tried to force, request, unpass this resolution long enough time? (16:41–16:59)

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Asserts that only one or two more Republican votes are needed to pass the War Powers Resolution.

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