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Hakeem Jeffries: “You can't simply transfer $230 million of taxpayer funds…”

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

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Leader Jeffries on MSNBC's The Beat

Published | Video Starts at 01:54

But he has all the time in the world to engage in another grift to enrich himself for a legitimate investigation that includes occurred under the prior administration. It is definitively illegal. Congress has the power of the purse. And You can't simply transfer $230 million of taxpayer funds because Donald Trump has directed his sycophants within his administration to do just that. And so I expect that if they were to engage in this type of unlawful action, of course they will be sued aggressively, immediately. (01:54–02:09)

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