Jeffries: There Is Definitively No Reason to Ever Trust Republicans

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Jeffries: There Is Definitively No Reason to Ever Trust Republicans

Pam Key 13 Oct 2025

Monday on MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said there was “no reason” to trust Republicans.

Tur said, “The Republicans have put forward a clean CR. That means they’re not changing funding levels. They just want this to pass for a short and extended period of time while they work out other issues. Do you not trust that they’ll if you signed on to this and the Senate Democrats signed on to this, that the Republicans would then come and negotiate and compromise on those health care subsidies?”

Jeffries said, “Well, there is definitively no reason to ever trust the Republicans, particularly as it relates to the health care issue and the Affordable Care Act. these are people who have now tried more than 70 different times over the last 15 years to repeal the Affordable Care Act. So there’s no reasonable basis to conclude that if they simply give their word as it relates to dealing with the Affordable Care Act tax credits, that they’ll actually move toward a legislative resolution. The other thing that’s important to point out is this is not a bipartisan spending bill that they’re asking House and Senate Democrats to vote on, and Senate Democrats have held the line in such an extraordinary way.”

He added, “This is a partizan Republican spending bill that many of us strongly objected to in March, because it cut veterans health care, cut nutritional assistance, cut benefits as it relates to affordable housing programs in this country, which is desperately needed. And it also cut health care. And so we view this as a partizan Republican spending bill that continues the trajectory of gutting the health care of the American people at a time when we need to fix our broken health care system because of all the damage that Republicans have done to working class Americans, rural America, urban America, small town America, the heartland of America, and black and brown communities throughout America.”

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[jmyrlefuller]

Of course, a Democratic leader is going to say that. His job depends on it.

[Smokin Joe]

Considering the ACA was a lie, along with all used to sell it, that only survived because of McCain's perfidy, and certainly one of the most expensive lies ever foisted on America, pardon me while I refuse to acknowledge any veracity in Mr. Jeffries' statements.

If he told me the sky was blue and the grass was green, I'd have to go check.

[Kamaji]

Maybe so, but there are plenty of reasons to affirmatively distrust democrat party members.

[libertybele]

There's only a handful of Congress critters that I now trust and that number has diminished significantly over the years.

[Smokin Joe]

There's only a handful of Congress critters that I now trust and that number has diminished significantly over the years.

I do not trust any of them to do the right thing unless they have something to gain.