"He lost control. I mean, he was stuttering, he was stammering, he was yelling, he was angry, and he wasn't answering any questions. And I was making a very simple point. Look, we voted to pass a clean CR to keep the government funded and open. It's a position he held 13 times under Joe Biden, and I'm co-sponsor of a bill to extend the ACA tax credits by a year to make sure that Americans don't see a health care premium spike"
"Lawler accused both Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) of being petrified of their party's far-left base, citing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as examples. This is about Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer being petrified of their far-left base AOC, Zoran Mandani, and primary challenges from the left, he said. And so they're trying to show them that they're fighting, that they are pushing back against President Trump, and that's really what this is about."
Rep. Mike Lawler confronted House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a heated Capitol hallway exchange over the government shutdown and ACA subsidy extensions. Lawler pressed Jeffries to sign a one-year extension of Affordable Care Act premium tax credits to prevent major insurance premium increases, and he has co-sponsored separate legislation to achieve that. Democrats have refused to back a Continuing Resolution unless the subsidy extension is included. Lawler said Republicans voted for a clean CR to keep the government funded and accused Jeffries and Schumer of being petrified of far-left primary threats including AOC and Zohran Mamdani.
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