Hakeem Jeffries: We Need Republicans to ‘Change Course’ in Order to Reopen the Government

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JEFFRIES: “Unfortunately Republicans have continued to take up my way or the highway approach. That's what they did in their One Big Ugly Bill, largest cut to Medicaid in American history, ripped food out of the mouths of children seniors and veterans with a $186 billion cut to SNAP. They did that in July, and all of this was done so they can reward their billionaire donors with massive tax breaks. The American people are rejecting that level of extremism. And it's certainly our hope that Republicans will see the need to change course, sit down with us as Democrats and we can find our way out of this unfortunately, very painful shutdown that the American people have been experiencing.”