(25 Feb 2025)
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Washington DC – 25 February 2025
1. Wide of House Democrats in front of the Capitol steps
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, (D) House Minority Leader:
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"Today we stand together as House Democrats with the American people to push back against this reckless Republican budget (applause). This is a critical moment in the American journey. Everything we care about is under assault. The economy is under assault. The safety net is under assault. Our very way of life as a country is under assault. Democracy itself is under assault."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, (D) House Minority Leader:
They will not get a single Democratic vote. Why? Because we’re voting with the American people. They’re voting with the American people. We will push back against the Republican budget today. We will push back against the Republican budget tomorrow. We will push back against the reckless Republican budget until is buried deep in the ground, never to rise again.
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mary Beth Cochran, Canton, North Carolina resident who relies on Medicaid:
"Families like mine are counting on Congress to put the needs of our children above the interests of the ultra rich by voting no on the budget. Read budget resolution. These businesses don’t need any more tax cuts. Tax cuts. Like I heard the other night on the news. McDonald’s doesn’t need any more tax cuts. Please think of the simple little people like myself and other families that are struggling every day."
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Katina Moss, Virginia resident who relies on Medicaid:
"Republicans in Congress are looking high and low for ways to pay for another round of tax handouts for billionaires like Elon Musk. And their eyes are locked in on Medicaid. Millionaires and billionaires do not need any more handouts and federal lawmakers should not be entertaining the thought of ripping health care away from millions of people like me in order to pay for this upside down tax plan."
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Katherine Clark, (D) House Minority Whip:
"House Republicans have shown they will allow their own constituents to be crushed under the weight of their political ambition. Every day we come to work under the gaze of the Statue of Freedom. She embodies the idea that opportunity and liberty and justice are not reserved for the wealthy and powerful. Stealing tax dollars to give to billionaires is not what she had in mind. The American people see this exactly for what it is. And standing together, shoulder to shoulder. We are going to fight for fairness, for opportunity, for the security of the people of this country."
11. Wide of House Democrats on Capitol steps
STORYLINE:
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says the budget plan that the Speaker is trying to push through will not get ‘a single Democratic vote."
"We’re voting with the American people," said Jeffries on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
"We will push back against the Republican budget today. We will push back against the Republican budget tomorrow. We will push back against the reckless Republican budget until is buried deep in the ground, never to rise again."
The House speaker is trying against the odds to muscle a Republican budget blueprint to passage this week, a step toward delivering President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” with $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $2 trillion in spending cuts over stiff opposition from Democrats and even some Republicans.
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