Double-down.
(The Hill) — Senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett is defending critical comments she made of the GOP made from a church pulpit.
Jarrett ripped congressional Republcians for blocking President Obama’s jobs bill, which she said would have helped state and local governments keep teachers, firefighters and police officers on the job.
“Teachers, and firefighters, and policemen, whose jobs are now in jeopardy because Congress, well let me be specific, because the Republicans in Congress. . .” Jarrett said during a Sunday church service, according to CBS Atlanta, before being interrupted by laughter and applause.
Conservatives criticized Jarrett over the remarks, which were made from the pulpit of an Atlanta church during a service honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
But Jarrett showed no signs of backing down on Tuesday.
“I think it’s very clear that the Republicans voted against the American Jobs Act each time when the whole Act was before Congress, when each component part, practically all of them — the Republicans voted against,” Jarrett said.