During a press briefing on Thursday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) spoke about what concessions Democrats will demand if House Republicans are unable to suspend the debt ceiling.
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00:00It's unclear whether House Republicans will be able to suspend the debt limit on their own.
00:04The ex-state is coming up in August or September, according to CBO.
00:07If Democratic votes are needed to suspend the debt limit, what are some policy concessions that you would want,
00:13or would you be asking for something like that?
00:15We'll continue to make clear that we are not going to provide a blank check to Donald Trump
00:20and extreme mega Republicans to enact massive tax breaks for their billionaire donors like Elon Musk,
00:27while at the same time using that blank check to try to slash health care programs like Medicaid
00:35and literally take food out of the mouths of children
00:39by enacting the largest cut to nutritional assistance in American history.
00:45Those are the top lines.
00:46We've been very clear, public, and transparent about it,
00:51and the ball is now in the court of the Republicans who claim some big mandate
00:57when we know that it does not exist.