Can Hakeem Jeffries Break Through?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Then he turned the conversation back to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.
59% : Should at least four Republicans defect, said Jeffries, "everything will fall apart, which is a good development for the American people, and the one that we're trying to make sure takes place." Though Trump has said he wants to protect Medicaid, the debate among Republicans in Congress isn't whether to cut it, but by how much.
55% : (There's also a separate, parallel fight between blue- and red-state Republicans over federal tax deductions for state and local income taxes.)
48% : A House budget resolution passed in February instructs the Energy and Commerce Committee to find $880 billion to cut from the programs under its jurisdiction, which would require taking an ax to Medicaid.
41% : But the next phase of Trump's agenda runs through the House, where Republicans are negotiating a budget bill extending his first-term tax cuts, now set to expire at the end of the year, while cutting social programs, including Medicaid.
37% : In the opening days of this administration, Congress has been an afterthought, with Republican representatives declining to either check Trump or do much lawmaking.
30% : Still, it's pretty clear that Jeffries would much rather talk about Medicaid and taxes -- the normal stuff of Democratic legislating -- than looming autocracy.
25% : Given the narrow Republican majority in the House, and the likelihood of a Democratic takeover in the midterms, it could be the only significant piece of new legislation Trump gets to sign.
17% : " The day we spoke, a widely shared Bulwark story said that Jeffries was discouraging Democratic representatives from traveling to El Salvador to highlight the plight of the deportees sent by Trump to rot in a maximum-security gulag.

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