During a press briefing on Tuesday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was asked about whether Congress would approve of President Trump accepting a gifted 747 plane from Qatar.
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00:00Mr. Leader, on a similar vein of standing up for Congress's authority, what are you trying to do, if anything, about the Qatari plane, and what steps are you taking to assert Congress's authority over this, and when it comes to the Library of Congress?
00:18Well, Congressman Jamie Raskin has been very clear on this issue as it relates to the Constitution. A $400 million flying palace is an unconstitutional gift to this president or any president if it is not explicitly approved by the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
00:44That's what the Constitution explicitly makes clear. There's no way around it as far as we're concerned. So the president presumably is going to take that next step and seek Congressional authority, which I believe we will clearly and decisively reject.
01:05It's an embarrassment. Literally, millions of people in this country are struggling to live paycheck to paycheck. Can't afford housing. Can't afford groceries. Can't afford to pay their utility bills.
01:22Can't afford child care. Can't afford insurance. And Donald Trump is publicly defending, accepting a $400 million flying palace from a close ally of Iran and Hamas.
01:42I mean, you can't make this. I mean, you can't make this stuff up. Which is why even some of his closest MAGA sycophants have made clear this is a plane too far for them. Too far for them.