Rancho Mirage – A day after President Trump proposed a budget that would deeply reduce the federal government, the leader of the Democratic minority of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, promised on Saturday that his party is unified in his opposition and the veteran veteran veteran US veteran.
“We are committed to doing everything possible at this time to stop the Republicans of the Trypicans of the Trypicans of Jam Thys, an extreme budget for the throats of the American people,” a few hundred people gathered in a doctor of scenic arts centers of the secondary school. “It will harm children, families and older people and women and older Americans and Americans with disabilities. Hospitals will close, elderly homes could close, and in fact, people could.”
Jeffries said the budget comes from an out of control Trump, and described the proposal as non -American and inconceivable.
“We are going to do everything possible to stop this budget dry, bury it on the ground and make sure it never rises again,” he said.
Christian Martínez, spokesman for the National Committee of the Republican Congress, criticized the appearance of Jeffries in the City Council, calling him “delusional, destructive and soaked in hypocrisy.”
The event occurred in the Congress district of one of Trump’s late retreats in the 2024 presidential campaign.
The event was the first stop on a national tour of the Chamber’s Democratic Policies and Directorate Committee, as well as a City Council organized by the representative Raúl Ruiz (D-Indio).
Ruiz repeats all the counties of Imperial County and parts of the rates of Riverside and San Bernardino, including Cathedral City, Indian, Coachella, El Centro, Calexo, San Jacinto, Hemet and Needles. In the recent elections, the district has been seen as democratic safely.
But earlier this year, the non -partisan Cook’s political report considered it “probably democratic” due to Trump’s performance in the region in the 2024 elections. In 2024, the president won 10 counties in California who voted for Biden in the previous elections, including three in southern California, and lost to former Vice President Kamala Harris in the district of Ruiz by Ruiz points.
Ruiz beat his partner Democrat, winning the district for 13 points. But depending on who is the candidate for the Congress of the Republican party in the mid -period elections next year, and if the party places the resources behind him or her, the race could be more competitive in 2026.
He first chosen the Congress in 2012, Ruiz said he was special concerned about possible cuts to Medicaid, which provides medical care coverage for low-income Americans and that it is known as Medi-Cal in California, Becoaus Asician.
“I have anxiety because many of the patients who take care of Medi-Cal, and I know that without medi-Cal they won their treatment, and they will enter, only in more terrible circumstances, in the emergency department,” he said.
He argued that the cut of the budget that Trump proposes is so great that there is no way to promulgate them without cutting Medicaid. Ruiz said that the inner empire’s health program told him that three hospitals in his district will have to close whether there are significant clippings of Medicaid.
“Then, if you don’t have Medicaid, where are you going to go? If there is an emergency, where are you going to go to your chronic attention?” Ruiz said. “So this affects us all.”
Ruiz’s comments were in response to a question of a audience member about medical care. Other consultations referred to deportations, due process, social security and cuts to federal departments, including disease control centers and the Department of Education.
The City Council also had the representative. Nanette Barragan (D-San Pedro), co-president of the Management and Policy Committee, and representative Teresa Army Fernández (Dn.M.), the president of the Caucus of democratic women of the Chamber. The letter delivered a passionate plea on the impact of federal cuts to women who trust the federal duration of health coverage their pregnancies and children.
“When those babies are born, we want them to be born strong and healthy,” said Army Fernández. “And then the children will go to school, and we want to make sure they are not hungry, right? Because children cannot learn where their stomachs are growling. Dologists of tax cuts to the richest who supported them.”
Jeffries said that such efforts are part of a broader assault on the nation and democracy, and that is why the Democrats carry out municipalities not only in their parties but also those represented by the Republicans.
“Congress is a separate and co -official branch of government,” he said. “We do not work for this president. We do not work for any president. We do not work for Donald Trump. We do not work with Elon Musk. We do not work for extreme right -wing extremists. We work for you, the American people.”
