Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has lashed out with wild claims about a budget bill seeking to advance President Donald Trump’s economic agenda.
During a fearmongering press conference, Jeffries claimed the legislation would take food from the “mouths of babies” in order to enrich billionaire “puppet masters like Elon Musk.”
Jeffreis also argues that those who support Trump’s “reckless” agenda are “MAGA extremists.”
During his press conference, Jeffries raged:
“These MAGA extremists are trying to jam a reckless budget down the throat of the American people.
“Take away health care from the American people.
“Strip away veterans’ benefits from the American people.
“And hurt nutritional assistance and literally take food out of the mouths of babies in America.
“Why? Because they want to pass massive tax breaks for their billionaire donors and puppet masters like Elon Musk.
“This is Republican policy in America, and it’s a complete and total disaster.”
The House’s framework for the budget bill passed in February.
It included $4.5 trillion for extending Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and implementing the president’s newer proposals, such as no taxes on tipped wages.
Senate Republicans approved a blueprint version of the bill Saturday.
The legislation currently hangs in the balance as Republican lawmakers hash out details of the final version of the bill.
The House Democrat leader’s press conference was in response to Trump’s recently unveiled tariff plans.
The plan imposes leveled customized tariffs on countries that have historically higher tariffs in place on American goods.
The plan also includes a baseline tariff of 10% on other nations.
In response to the tariffs, nations have been scrambling to offer Trump better trade deals that will benefit America for decades to come.
The House minority leader added in his address that the Trump administration is “extreme.”
With a straight face, Jeffries claimed that the president is “intentionally inflicting” economic “pain on the American people.”
Unsurprisingly, he didn’t provide any evidence for these allegations.
“Instead of costs going down, which Donald Trump promised would happen on day one of his presidency, costs aren’t going down.
“They’re going up. Inflation is going up.
“Donald Trump and Republicans are actually crashing the economy in real time,” he said.
“They are intentionally inflicting pain on the American people,” Jeffries claimed.
“This Trump tax, these reckless tariffs will cost the American people thousands of dollars a year.
“It’s the largest tax increase on the American people since 1968.
“This is what Donald Trump’s presidency and Republicans in control of the House and the Senate are delivering to America, not lower costs.”
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Hakeem Jeffries: MAGA Extremists want to starve babies so their billionaire puppet masters can make more money.
21% approval is still WAY too high for this clown. pic.twitter.com/sOqRAIyqpa
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 7, 2025
Trump slammed mounting concerns over the economy following his tariff announcement Wednesday.
The president dubbed the moment “Liberation Day.”
While mocking his critics, Trump also coined a new term called “panican.”
The president described a “panican” as a member of a political uniparty of “Weak and Stupid people.”
“The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO,” Trump posted to Truth Social Monday.
“Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!).
“Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!”
“Oil prices are down, interest rates are down (the slow moving Fed should cut rates!), food prices are down, there is NO INFLATION, and the long time abused USA is bringing in Billions of Dollars a week from the abusing countries on Tariffs that are already in place,” Trump added.
The Trump administration has celebrated the recent tariff announcements as evening the trade playing field for the U.S.
It comes after decades of other nations leveling lofty duty taxes on U.S. goods, hurting the American economy while boosting their own.
Trump promises that his plan will usher in a job boon, lower taxes for citizens, and protect the U.S. supply chain by manufacturing goods on American soil.
“American steel workers, auto workers, farmers and skilled craftsmen,” Trump said from the White House Rose Garden Wednesday afternoon.
“We have a lot of them here with us today.
“They really suffered, gravely.
“They watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once-beautiful American dream.
“We had an American dream that you don’t hear so much about.
“You did four years ago, and you are now. But you don’t too often.”
“Now it’s our turn to prosper, and in so doing, use trillions and trillions of dollars to reduce our taxes and pay down our national debt,” he continued.
“And it will all happen very quickly.
“With today’s action, we are finally going to be able to make America great again, greater than ever before.
“Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already.
“We will supercharge our domestic industrial base.”
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