'Dead On Arrival': Jeffries Blasts 'Partisan Farm Bill' That Drastically Cuts Nutritional Assistance

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

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00:00I

00:05Talked to congressman Glenn Thompson earlier

00:07He was talking about the progress made with the farm bill came across with large bipartisan support

00:13Obviously, there's been talk in the Senate as well about their version

00:15Can you tell me about Democrats with their priorities when it came to the farm bill and after that can you also touch on GK Thompson?

00:22Thanks the farm bill came out of this committee with large bipartisan support

00:27That in fact is an inaccurate statement, but no surprise

00:32Farm bill that emerged

00:34from the AG committee

00:37was

00:39decisively opposed by the overwhelming majority of House Democrats

00:43because it was a

00:46Highly partisan farm bill that would cut 30 billion dollars in food and nutritional assistance

00:56Largely and disproportionately

01:00Impacting children and veterans

01:04That partisan farm bill is dead on arrival no one

01:10Believes with any degree of credibility that the farm bill that emerged out of the AG committee has a shot on

01:18the House floor

01:19Or in the United States Senate, it's time

01:22for House Republicans to get serious about

01:25Legislating

01:28Because these reckless legislative joyrides that we are now seeing with the National Defense Authorization Act

01:37As well as the farm bill have no shot zero

01:43Shot of being enacted into law

01:47Why are we wasting?

01:51Time when we should be solving real

01:55problems for

01:56the American people and

01:59building a healthy economy, that's

02:01What House Democrats are all about but unfortunately?

02:06Many of my Republican colleagues continue to play

02:09reckless unnecessary

02:11Political games to follow up on that though

02:14Is there something that would make it more appealing for you or there's the need to be more prioritization for these programs or for farmers?

02:20We are not going to allow draconian cuts to food and nutritional assistance programs for the American people that are designed to benefit children and veterans to go forward

02:36And we are not going to allow extreme MAGA Republicans to devastate our ability to address the climate crisis with the fierce urgency of now

02:45Which is also part of the extreme MAGA Republican objective

02:49Why because many of them have been sent to Congress to do the bidding of big oil

02:58The only way that a farm bill is going to advance into law

03:03Is for the four corners to sit down and have a bipartisan discussion led by Senator Stabenow

03:10in partnership

03:13With Representative David

03:15Thompson

03:18In order David Scott in order

03:25Partnership with David Scott in order to arrive at bipartisan

'Dead On Arrival': Jeffries Blasts 'Partisan Farm Bill' That Drastically Cuts Nutritional Assistance

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