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Jake Auchincloss: “Democrats raised our hand and said, we're not going to fund…”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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Published | Video Starts at 05:52

Speaker Johnson has been complicit in that. And he's turned around and used the middle class as a punching bag when he actually needed Congress to pass his appropriations. Democrats raised our hand and said, we're not going to fund your government with taxpayer dollars from the middle class when you have levied them the biggest tax hike in American history and the biggest health care cut in American history. We are going to stand up for the middle class. They don't have a meme coin or a super PAC or any other way to get in Donald Trump's ear, but they do have the Democratic Party. (05:52–06:04)

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Asserts that Democrats oppose funding the government due to the largest tax and healthcare cuts in history.

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