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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries railed against a fund measure that would beforehand President Donald Trump's docket arsenic authorities that would instrumentality nutrient from the mouths of babies successful bid to enrich billionaire "puppet masters."
"These MAGA extremists are trying to jam a reckless fund down the pharynx of the American people," Jeffries said during a Monday property conference. "Take distant wellness attraction from the American people. Strip distant veterans benefits from the American people. And wounded nutritional assistance and virtually instrumentality nutrient retired of the mouths of babies successful America."
"Why? Because they privation to walk monolithic taxation breaks for their billionaire donors and puppet masters similar Elon Musk. This is Republican argumentation successful America, and it's a implicit and full disaster."
The House's model for the fund measure passed successful February and included $4.5 trillion for extending Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and implementing newer Trump proposals similar nary taxes connected tipped wages. Senate Republicans approved a blueprint mentation of the measure Saturday. The authorities presently hangs successful the equilibrium arsenic Republican lawmakers hash retired details of the last mentation of the bill.
The New York Democrat's property league was successful effect to Trump's precocious unveiled tariff plans that volition level customized tariffs connected countries that person historically higher tariffs successful spot connected American goods, arsenic good arsenic a baseline tariff of 10% connected different nations.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks astatine his play property league astatine the U.S. Capitol Building successful Washington. (Getty Images)
The House number person added successful his code that the Trump medication is "extreme" and that the president is "intentionally inflicting" economical "pain connected the American people."
"Instead of costs going down, which Donald Trump promised would hap connected time 1 of his presidency, costs aren't going down. They're going up. Inflation is going up. Donald Trump and Republicans are really crashing the system successful existent time," helium said.
"They are intentionally inflicting symptom connected the American people," Jeffries claimed. "This Trump tax, these reckless tariffs volition outgo the American radical thousands of dollars a year. It's the largest taxation summation connected the American radical since 1968. This is what Donald Trump's presidency and Republicans successful power of the House and the Senate are delivering to America, not little costs."
President Donald Trump unveiled his Liberation Day tariff program connected April 2. (Getty Images)
Trump slammed mounting concerns implicit the system pursuing his tariff announcement Wednesday, which Trump dubbed "Liberation Day" — and coined a caller word called "panican," which the president described arsenic a governmental enactment of "Weak and Stupid people."
"The United States has a accidental to bash thing that should person been done DECADES AGO. Don’t beryllium Weak! Don’t beryllium Stupid! Don’t beryllium a PANICAN (A caller enactment based connected Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS volition beryllium the result!" helium posted to Truth Social Monday.
HAKEEM JEFFRIES LEADS PROTEST AGAINST TRUMP, MUSK'S 'UNCONSCIONABLE' REFORM EFFORTS
"Oil prices are down, involvement rates are down (the dilatory moving Fed should chopped rates!), nutrient prices are down, determination is NO INFLATION, and the agelong clip abused USA is bringing successful Billions of Dollars a week from the abusing countries connected Tariffs that are already successful place," Trump added.
President Donald Trump holds a illustration arsenic helium delivers remarks connected reciprocal tariffs during an lawsuit successful the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected April 2, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
The Trump administration has celebrated the caller tariff announcements arsenic evening the commercialized playing tract for the U.S. aft decades of different nations leveling lofty work taxes connected U.S. goods, arsenic good arsenic ushering successful a occupation boon, lowering taxes for citizens and protecting the U.S. proviso concatenation by manufacturing goods connected American soil.
"American alloy workers, car workers, farmers and skilled craftsmen," Trump said from the White House Rose Garden Wednesday afternoon. "We person a batch of them present with america today. They truly suffered, gravely. They watched successful anguish arsenic overseas leaders person stolen our jobs, overseas cheaters person ransacked our factories, and overseas scavengers person torn isolated our once-beautiful American dream. We had an American imagination that you don't perceive truthful overmuch about. You did 4 years ago, and you are now. But you don't excessively often."
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"Now it's our crook to prosper, and successful truthful doing, usage trillions and trillions of dollars to trim our taxes and wage down our nationalist debt," helium continued. "And it volition each hap precise quickly. With today's action, we are yet going to beryllium capable to marque America large again, greater than ever before. Jobs and factories volition travel roaring backmost into our country, and you spot it happening already. We volition supercharge our home concern base."
Fox News Digital reached retired to Jeffries' bureau for further remark connected the substance but did not instantly person a reply.
Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
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