Hakeem Jeffries Says He Doesn’t Back Medicare for All After Study Finds It Would Save 114k Lives a Year
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This is a reversal of his prior stance on the legislation, which he once cosponsored.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) has said that he now opposes Medicare for All, flipping on his previous stance just as Democrats are on the cusp of potentially winning back control of the House. Medicare for All is “not legislation that I am currently cosponsoring or that I support,” Jeffries said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. Jeffries declined to say…

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    6·
    2 months ago

    The first thing the Dems should do in both chambers is dump Schmuck & Jeffries. These losers are 50% of the reason MAGA regained power. They squandered their first shot at crushing MAGA, they have done nothing to show they deserve a second chance, and this is a perfect example right here.

    We are destined to oscillate between extremes every 4 years, in an endless political glitch, until we decisively crush MAGA, and purge it from our government and society.

    • kreskin@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      Party leaders of the house and senate can be called to be reselected at any time with a relatively small number of supporters for a vote to be held. its an internal vote amongst the Dem party members of that body. But they never call for that vote. So its not just Schumer and Jeffries, its most of the reps in congress.