Chairman Aguilar: House Democrats banded together and delivered this victory for the American people.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar joined Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Democratic Whip Katherine Clark for a press conference about the House passage of Democrats’ legislation to restore and extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. You can watch the full press conference here and read the transcript of the Chairman’s remarks below.
CHAIRMAN AGUILAR: This is a victory for the American people, but I did want to thank Whip Clark, the whip team, the staff team, the leader’s team, the Leader himself for all the work and the energy that they put into delivering this vote for the American people. This is about lowering the costs that people face because we have heard from our constituents, we have heard in our districts and back home.
Parents are having to struggle to make ends meet, to pay rent. Seniors are struggling to pay the cost of health care and prescription drugs. Young people are struggling in picking up second jobs to make ends meet. This is an affordability crisis, and House Democrats banded together and delivered this victory for the American people. That's what this was about. But make no mistake, Speaker Johnson and Republicans tried to put up every roadblock they could to delay and to stop us winning this vote and delivering these premium benefits to the American people.
But despite all of that, we worked, we hustled. And the Leader guided this ship to deliver this victory to the American people—because that's what this is about. And we're thankful that in a strong, bipartisan way, we were able to have success. Seventeen Republicans joining with us. As the Leader said, this is on John Thune right now to put this up for a vote—strong bipartisan support in both chambers. The Senate needs to give us a vote, and we need to have this relief for the American people.
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