WATCH LIVE: Hakeem Jeffries holds weekly press conference
House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) will hold his weekly press conference at 10:45 a.m. on Thursday.
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Jeffries is expected to speak about the GOP’s budget bill.
“House Republicans are determined to jam a reckless and extreme budget down the throats of the American people that will enact the largest cut to Medicaid in American history,” Jeffries said on Tuesday. “These cuts are unacceptable, unconscionable, and un-American.”
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