LEADER JEFFRIES IN THE CAPITOL: “REPUBLICANS WANT TO CONTINUE TO GUT THE HEALTHCARE OF EVERYDAY AMERICANS”

Today, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries held a media availability where he made clear that with only four days until a government shutdown, Donald Trump and Republicans are out of town, marching the country toward a government shutdown and worsening the healthcare crisis they created.

LEADER JEFFRIES: We're four days away from a government shutdown. Democrats are here in the Capitol, ready, willing and able to sit down with anyone, at any time and at any place in order to find a bipartisan path forward to fund the government, avoid a reckless Republican shutdown and deal with the healthcare crisis that Republicans have created in the United States of America. Four days away from a government shutdown and Republicans are on vacation. House Republicans on vacation-canceled votes on the eve of a government shutdown. And Donald Trump is at a golf event? He doesn't have the time to meet with Democratic leaders to fund the government and address the Republican healthcare crisis. But Donald Trump, right now, as we speak, is at a golf event. It's outrageous. And why are they running out of town? It's because Republicans want to shut down the government, they want to continue to inflict pain on the American people and they want to continue to gut the healthcare of everyday Americans. Democrats are not going to go along to get along. Our position is clear: cancel the cuts, lower the cost, save healthcare.

Full press conference can be watched here.

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