'Crashing The Economy In Real Time': Hakeem Jeffries Unleashes On Donald Trump Over Tariffs

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At a press briefing on Monday, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) spoke about President Trump's tariffs and the market reaction.

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00:00Afternoon, everybody.

00:02Donald Trump and extreme

00:05mega-Republicans spent all of last year

00:07promising to lower

00:10the high cost of living

00:12in America.

00:14While at the same period of time,

00:16running away from Project 2025

00:19and pretending as if

00:21it didn't exist.

00:23They consistently

00:25lied to the American people.

00:27And now the American people

00:29are feeling the consequences

00:31of this extreme

00:33administration,

00:35the Trump administration,

00:37this extreme president,

00:39Donald Trump,

00:41and these extreme mega-Republicans

00:43who are temporarily

00:45in the majority in the House of Representatives.

00:48This year,

00:50Republicans have done nothing,

00:52not a single thing,

00:54to lower the high cost of living

00:56in the United States of America.

00:59The cost of living is too high.

01:02Housing costs are too high.

01:05Grocery costs are too high.

01:07Insurance costs

01:09are too high.

01:11Utility costs are too high.

01:13Child care costs are too high.

01:15America is too expensive.

01:18And Democrats remain committed

01:21to driving down the high cost of living

01:23in the United States of America.

01:26Instead,

01:28instead of costs

01:30going down, which Donald Trump

01:32promised would happen on day one

01:34of his presidency,

01:36costs aren't going down,

01:38they're going up.

01:40Inflation is going up.

01:42Donald Trump

01:44and Republicans are actually

01:46crashing the economy

01:48in real time. You can't make this up.

01:50They are intentionally

01:52inflicting pain

01:55on the American people.

01:59This Trump

02:01tax, these reckless

02:03tariffs

02:05will cost the American people

02:07thousands of dollars a year.

02:11It's the largest tax increase

02:13on the American people

02:15since 1968.

02:19This is what

02:21Donald Trump's presidency

02:24and Republicans in control

02:26of the House and the Senate

02:28are delivering

02:30to America. Not lower costs.

02:32Not a more prosperous

02:34economy. Not the

02:36golden age in America.

02:38Economic disaster.

02:42And then at the same period of time,

02:44these MAGA extremists

02:46are trying to

02:48jam a reckless budget

02:50down the throats of the American people

02:53take away healthcare

02:55from the American people

02:57strip away

02:59veterans benefits

03:01from the American people

03:03and hurt nutritional

03:05assistance and literally

03:07take food out of the mouths of babies

03:09in America. Why?

03:11Because they want

03:13to pass

03:15massive tax breaks

03:17for their billionaire

03:19donors and puppet masters

03:21like Elon Musk.

03:23This is

03:25Republican

03:27policy in America

03:29and it's a complete

03:31and total disaster.

'Crashing The Economy In Real Time': Hakeem Jeffries Unleashes On Donald Trump Over Tariffs

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