And now for a Democrats take, we're joined by Representative Pramala Jayapal of Washington.

She's also the chair of Merida of the House Progressive Caucus.

Congresswoman, welcome back to the News Hour. Thanks for joining us.

Thank you for having me, Amna.

So we saw House Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, wrote to Democratic lawmakers,

and he said, for tonight it's important to have a strong, determined,

and dignified

democratic presence in the chamber. We've heard from some of your colleagues in Democratic

Party that they're boycotting tonight. Will you be attending? And why if so?

Amna, I will be there because I was there in the gallery on January 6th when Donald Trump

and insurrectionists tried to take over the

people's house. And tonight, I feel that it's very important for us to reclaim our house,

to reclaim our chamber, to sit there and be able to very seriously react to and hear what Donald

Trump is going to say. I believe that it's going to be a set of, you know,

lies that he's going to be spreading

that are completely divorced from reality.

And I believe that once again,

he will tell the American people that he's doing things for them

when, in fact, two-thirds of the American people

know that he has done nothing to lower cost for the American people.

In fact, what he's doing with this indiscriminate trade war, he is levying taxes,

because that's what a tariff is, is a tax on working families across this country,

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