LEADER JEFFRIES: "DONALD TRUMP AND EXTREME MAGA REPUBLICANS WANT TO END SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE AS WE KNOW IT"

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"Good morning, everyone. House Democrats will continue to work with President Biden to create an economy that works for everyday Americans, to lower costs, continue our fight for better-paying jobs, safer communities and, of course, to defend democracy and fight for reproductive freedom.

Consistent with our objective to continue to put People Over Politics, President Biden and the administration released a budget early this week that will do at least three important things that will lower costs for everyday Americans and build upon the work that has already been done to drive down the high price of lifesaving prescription drugs for millions of Americans. It will continue to build an economy from the middle out and the bottom up that is focused on growing the middle class and all those who aspire to be part of the middle class throughout America.

Perhaps most importantly, President Biden and House Democrats are focused on protecting and strengthening Social Security. Notwithstanding what the former President down in Mar-A-Lago had to say about Social Security and Medicare, these are not entitlement programs. Social Security and Medicare are earned benefits that the American people work hard for throughout their entire lives and paid into the promise that as they become older Americans, they'll have access to Social Security and Medicare so they can live a life with dignity and respect. Social Security and Medicare are quintessential parts of the American Dream. Donald Trump and the extreme MAGA Republicans want to end Social Security and Medicare as we know it. It's not a secret. They have said it publicly over, and over and over again, including this week.

And that will establish a clear contrast between President Biden and House Democrats, who are going to fight to protect and strengthen Social Security and Medicare, and extreme MAGA Republicans want to take these things away, just like they ended Roe v. Wade and reproductive freedom for tens of millions of Americans all across America. If it can happen to Roe v Wade, then of course the extreme MAGA Republicans will continue to try to detonate things in the United States of America that we believed were untouchable. And we're going to push back aggressively against them."

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