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Hakeem Jeffries: “We're united in pushing back against the damage that was…”

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

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Sen. Whitehouse, Leader Jeffries, and Speaker Emerita Pelosi on Climate Change

Published | Video Starts at 20:00

Mr. Well, let me generally comment on the assault on the Inflation Reduction act and the clean energy economy. And as Democrats, We're united in pushing back against the damage that was done, notwithstanding the fact that there were Several more than 20 House Republicans who said hands off the clean energy tax credits and provisions in the Inflation Reduction act, and then of course, bent the knee to Donald Trump as soon as he ordered them to decimate the overwhelming majority. So we think that there's a lot of repair work that has to be done in order to get back to the place where we are standing up a clean … (20:00–20:25)

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Asserts that over 20 House Republicans initially supported clean energy tax credits but reversed under Trump's influence.

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