Fox News Can't It Handle Hakeem Jeffries Confronts Them With Facts
House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries went on Fox News Sunday and exposed the lies of the administration in a way that Fox could not handle.
The Trump presidency is sinking under the weight of a bad economy and the president’s refusal to deal with the reality of the bad economy.
Trump calls affordability a hoax, and tries to gaslight the American people into believing that everything is fine when their own wallets tell a very different story.
Fox News viewers got a crash course in reality when Democratic Minority Leader Jeffries was on Fox News Sunday.
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Host Shannon Bream asked Jeffries, “So to the point of affordability, inflation is down, wage growth is up—it’s far outpacing inflation—consumer sentiment is positive, small business consumer sentiment is positive as well. I mean, there are a lot of markers that seem to be moving in the right direction. The American people, I mean gas prices down, grocery prices have slowed, are those not positive?”
Jeffries answered:
Well, the American people understand that this administration promised that they would lower costs on day one. That’s the standard that this administration, that the President himself set. Costs haven’t gone down in the United States of America. We know costs have gone up. Housing costs out of control, grocery costs out of control, electricity bills out of control, healthcare costs out of control and child care costs out of control.
America right now is far too expensive. And we all should be working together to lower the high cost of living, to bring about a situation in this country where if you work hard and play by the rules, you should be able to live an affordable life. Far too many people in this country—this is not Democrats or Republicans, these are Americans. This is not a partisan issue—far too many people are struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, can barely survive and certainly can’t thrive. And that’s the situation that we need to change decisively here in the United States of America.
It became clear that Bream and the Republicans have no answer in the faux populist playbook for a populist message rooted in economic concerns.
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