Hakeem Jeffries: This Republican Gov’t Shutdown Is About Healthcare, MTG Has Acknowledged That

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JEFFRIES: “Well, it’s about health care, and we’ve made that very clear. And Marjorie Taylor Greene has acknowledged that this clearly is an issue that needs to be addressed with the fierce urgency of now. Understand that what Republicans have done throughout the year, largest cut to Medicaid in American history, hospitals, nursing homes and community-based health clinics are closing all throughout the country because of what they did in their One Big Ugly Bill. We’re facing the largest cut to Medicare, $536 billion, in American history, if Congress doesn’t act by the end of this year. And on top of all that, people are facing these dramatically increased premiums, co-pays and deductibles because of the Republicans’ continued refusal to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits even though open enrollment starts in just a few weeks. So, we’ve made clear from the very beginning, we’ll sit down with anyone, anytime, any place to find a bipartisan path forward toward reopening the government. We want to stand with our hard-working federal employees and certainly our men and women in uniform, but we have to enact a spending agreement that actually meets the needs of the American people and at the same time decisively addresses the Republican health care crisis that is devastating people all across the country.”