Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Sunday mentioned President Donald Trump has failed to meet one of many major marketing campaign guarantees he ran on.
In an interview with ABC’s “This Week,” Jeffries mentioned Trump and the Republican Party have did not deliver down the price of residing — a problem that ranked as one of many major issues on voters’ minds as they headed to the poll field in November.
“They’ve performed the precise reverse,” Jeffries mentioned of Republicans. “They’ve proven little interest in reducing prices in the US of America, that are too excessive. Housing prices are too excessive. Grocery prices are too excessive. Youngster care prices are too excessive. Utility prices are too excessive.”
Regardless of Trump’s promise to “make America inexpensive once more” in the course of the marketing campaign, a report launched by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics final week confirmed the price of groceries, fuel and used vehicles has been rising — with the value of eggs showing a dramatic increase of 15% from one 12 months in the past.
Elsewhere in his “This Week” look, Jeffries accused Republicans of making an attempt “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 combat again.
“It’s a poisonous bait and change that’s underway,” he mentioned.
Through the interview, ABC’s Jonathan Karl pointed the Democratic chief to an announcement by Rep. Don Beyer, by which the Virginia Democrat mentioned the occasion remains to be searching for “that nationwide spokesperson,” including that Jeffries could be in a robust place to imagine the position, regardless that he hasn’t performed so up to now.
“Are you successfully the chief of the Democratic Party nationally proper now?” Karl requested.
Jeffries didn’t provide a direct reply however mentioned the occasion is set to come back 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 combat within the courts, push again within the Congress and proceed to push again in the neighborhood.”
