Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday pushed again on President Trump’s declare that the outcry congressional Republicans have confronted at current city halls has come from paid protesters.
“Another day, another lie from these people who are out of control. I’m told that Donald Trump, Mike Johnson and the extreme MAGA Republicans are claiming that Democrats are sending paid protesters into their town hall meetings. What’s wrong with y’all? What’s wrong with y’all?” Jeffries mentioned in a video posted to X.
“We don’t need to send paid protesters into your town hall meetings. The American people are with us,” he added. “All across the country, people are rising up to push back against the assault on the economy, the assault on hard-working families, the assault on our democracy and the assault on Medicaid. We don’t need paid protesters, bro, the American people are with us.”
Republican lawmakers handled indignant crowds at city corridor occasions through the congressional recess, notably on the hassle by the Trump administration to chop 1000’s of presidency jobs.
Trump on Monday dismissed the protests, writing on his Fact Social platform that “Paid ‘troublemakers’ are attending Republican Town Hall Meetings. It is all part of the game for the Democrats, but just like our big LANDSLIDE ELECTION, it’s not going to work for them!”
Final week, Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) additionally claimed demonstrators on the current city halls had been “paid” by Democrats.
“The videos you saw of the town halls were for paid protesters in many of those places,” Johnson informed CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. “These are Democrats who went to the occasions early and stuffed up the seats.”
The Hill has reached out to the White Home and Johnson’s workplace for remark.
