'They Are Not Serious About Governing': Jeffries Hammers GOP Over Partisan NDAA Amendments

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) held his weekly press briefing on Friday where he spoke about

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00:00As members of Congress, we have a responsibility to, at all times, protect the health, the

00:11safety, the national security, and the economic well-being of the American people.

00:17As part of that responsibility, we need, each and every year, to pass a bipartisan national

00:26defense authorization act.

00:29The National Defense Authorization Act legislation, pending before the Congress, advanced out

00:35of the Armed Services Committee on a strongly bipartisan vote, 57 to 1, and contained the

00:47types of provisions that earned bipartisan support in order to make sure that we had

00:55the military readiness necessary to protect the American people in an increasingly dangerous

01:02world.

01:05The National Defense Authorization Act advanced out of the Armed Services Committee, 57 to

01:121, and laid a foundation to be able to move bipartisan legislation through the House of

01:20Representatives.

01:21But the extreme Magna Republicans are not interested in governing.

01:26They do not care about the health, the safety, the national security, and the economic well-being

01:32of the American people.

01:33And so they have hijacked the National Defense Authorization Act in order to jam their extreme

01:42right-wing ideology down the throats of the American people.

01:48Extreme Magna Republicans are trying to, once again, march us toward a nationwide abortion

01:58ban and restrict the reproductive freedom of women serving in the military.

02:08Extreme Magna Republicans are once again attacking the LGBTQ plus community with a

02:17particular focus on bullying transgender children.

02:25Something is really wrong with these individuals.

02:30Extreme Magna Republicans want to undermine principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion

02:38within the military when black and Latino citizens of the United States of America disproportionately

02:48serve in uniform.

02:52Something is really wrong with these individuals on the other side of the aisle.

02:56They are not serious about governing.

03:01Instead, all they care about is bending the knee to Donald Trump.

'They Are Not Serious About Governing': Jeffries Hammers GOP Over Partisan NDAA Amendments

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