‘Trump’s Failed & Toxic Policies…’: Jeffries Goes After POTUS Over Rising Living Costs | Midterm

Well, good afternoon, everyone. It's an honor and a privilege to be back in Houston. Thank you, Sylvia, for your continued and extraordinary leadership, friendship, and partnership. So appreciative of Representative Menifee, who's doing a tremendous job hitting the ground running on behalf of the people that he represents in this great city. Certainly to Elsa, thank you for welcoming us to your home, to SEIU headquarters here in Houston, and for all the advocacy work that you do on behalf of hard working communities here in this town and the work that SEIU does all across the country. Also thankful to be here with several distinguished elected officials and leadership here, civic leaders, union leaders, as well as small businesses. It was a very informative roundtable where we heard about the brutality and the fear that Trump's violent mass deportation machine has been creating here in Houston, similar to what has gone on all across the country. Taxpayer dollars should be used to make life more affordable for the people here in America, not to brutalize and kill American citizens or violently target and kill law-abiding immigrant communities, as was the case horrifically here in Houston just a few months ago. We believe that immigration enforcement should be fair, just, and humane. The Trump administration promised that immigration enforcement was going to target violent felons. That's not what's happening. Mass deportation machine unleashed by Donald Trump has been targeting law-abiding immigrant communities like those here in Houston, and it's got to end. Everything has become more expensive here in America because of Donald Trump's failed and toxic policies. The one big ugly bill ripped away Medicaid from the American people. The one big, ugly bill, enacted the largest cut to nutritional assistance, $186 billion in American history, and at the same period of time, gave ICE a $75 billion slush fund so that these taxpayer dollars could be used to brutalize and kill American citizens and law-abiding immigrant communities. It's unacceptable, unconscionable, and un-American. And as House Democrats, we're committed to getting the situation turned around. We know we have a broken immigration system. We know it needs to be fixed in a comprehensive and bipartisan way. I'm thankful for the leadership of Sylvia Garcia and pushing forward with the Dream and Promise Act. That is just the beginning of what needs to happen in terms of getting this national nightmare that the people here in Houston and all across America have been experiencing and get to a much better place here in the United States of America, which will certainly include dramatic change as it relates to immigration enforcement and our continued commitment not to give a dime to Donald Trump's violent mass deportation machine.