Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday mentioned President Donald Trump has failed to satisfy one of many most important marketing campaign guarantees he ran on.
In an interview with ABC’s “This Week,” Jeffries mentioned Trump and the Republican Party have didn’t carry down the price of residing — a difficulty that ranked as one of many most important considerations on voters’ minds as they headed to the poll field in November.
“They’ve achieved the precise reverse,” Jeffries mentioned of Republicans. “They’ve proven no real interest in reducing prices in the USA of America, that are too excessive. Housing prices are too excessive. Grocery prices are too excessive. Little one care prices are too excessive. Utility prices are too excessive.”
Regardless of Trump’s promise to “make America inexpensive once more” throughout the marketing campaign, a report launched by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics final week confirmed the price of groceries, gasoline and used automobiles has been rising — with the worth of eggs showing a dramatic increase of 15% from one yr in the past.
Elsewhere in his “This Week” look, Jeffries accused Republicans of attempting “to jam the GOP tax rip-off down the throats of individuals all throughout this nation, all in service of huge tax cuts for his or her billionaire donors and rich companies,” and vowed that Democrats will struggle again.
“It’s a poisonous bait and swap that’s underway,” he mentioned.
Throughout the interview, ABC’s Jonathan Karl pointed the Democratic chief to an announcement by Rep. Don Beyer, through which the Virginia Democrat mentioned the social gathering remains to be in search of “that nationwide spokesperson,” including that Jeffries could be in a powerful place to imagine the function, though he hasn’t achieved so to date.
“Are you successfully the chief of the Democratic Party nationally proper now?” Karl requested.
Jeffries didn’t supply a direct reply however mentioned the social gathering is decided to return collectively to problem the insurance policies of the Trump administration.
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“It’s my honor to be Home Democratic chief, and we’re going to proceed to work collectively in an all-hands-on-deck effort to push again in opposition to the far-right extremism that’s being unleashed on this nation with file velocity,” Jeffries mentioned. “We’ve acquired to struggle within the courts, push again within the Congress and proceed to push again locally.”
