House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said in an interview Thursday that the nation is in crisis because of the policies of President Donald Trump.

“We are in a crisis across the board, in every way possible, including the assault on the democratic way of life,” the New York Democrat told CNN. “The president is assaulting the economy, assaulting Social Security, assaulting health care, assaulting the American way of life, and assaulting our democracy. None of this is normal.”

Jeffries said in the interview with Dana Bash that he is focused on life-or-death issues that affect his constituents. Trump has pledged to not make cuts to Social Security, though it has faced a reduction in employees as part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s findings of waste and possible fraud in the retirement agency.

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