Hakeem Jeffries Gets IRATE With CNBC Host For Pressing Him On His Robotic ObamaCare Talking Points

Posted • November 21, 2025: One of the main reasons the Democrats caused the government shutdown was purportedly because they were trying to get an extension of the ObamaCare COVID subsidies that Democrats had set to expire at the end of the year. That had nothing to do with the continuing resolution to keep the government open, but they thought they could hold the American people hostage with the shutdown to get what they wanted. However, the effort exposed what a mess ObamaCare is and how it is not, in fact, "affordable care" when it has to be propped up by subsidies. Republicans want to resolve the whole mess, while Democrats want to keep shoveling taxpayers' money at the problem. So when House Minority Leader, Democrat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (NY-8) appeared on CNBC with Squawk Box host Becky Quick, she tried to ask him about what the Democrats were going to do.

He wanted to go back to attack talking points about what Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) offered during the "Trump-Republican shutdown." Quick wasn't letting that go, telling him they were talking about what was going on now. —— Incredible exchange here as Hakeem Jeffries gets IRATE with CNBC’s Becky Quick for daring to press him on his robotic ACA talking points. This guy absolutely loses it at ANY semblance of media pushback to his scripted, robotic regurgitations. Jeffries said he was "providing an answer in order to provide context." That's when Quick broke out one heck of an epic eye roll that perfectly describes the Democrat Party. —— New gif for your future Hakeem replies https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/G6SX6QOWAAAIGvZ.mp4 —— She also cooked him on his "context." —— "It's important context to make me realize that I don't think you want to get a deal done. I think this is something where you'd like to see the rates go higher and allow the Republicans to hang themselves with that." (…)

• More at: RedState - This Is One Heck of an Amazing Eyeroll in Response to Jeffries' Wild Gaslighting on Obamacare Fix
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/11/21/hakeem-jeffries-remarks-on-obamacare-n2196433
Twitchy: GIF Giving: CNBC Anchor Battles Liar Hakeem Jeffries Over Obamacare and Delivers Perfect Animated Meme
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