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Hakeem Jeffries isn’t speaker yet, but the Democrat may be the most powerful person in Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) — Without wielding the gavel or holding a formal job laid out in the Constitution, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries might very well be the most powerful person in Congress right now. The minority leader of the House Democrats, it was Jeffries who provided the votes needed to keep the government running despite opposition from House Republicans to prevent a federal shutdown. Jeffries who made sure Democrats delivered the tally to send $95 billion foreign aid to Ukraine and other […]

todayMay 2, 2024

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House Republicans fear Rep. Hakeem Jeffries could be next House speaker if Johnson is ousted

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is worried House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., could become the next speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, if the current speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., is ousted. Gaetz told theGrio he is worried some of his “Republican colleagues would vote for Jeffries” to be Johnson’s successor in the event far-right Republican lawmakers make good on their threat to vacate him from the speakership. The Republican lawmaker’s comments come after he wrote on […]

todayApril 22, 2024

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Hakeem Jeffries calls on Republicans to release funding for Haiti

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Thursday demanded that Republican lawmakers immediately back the release of millions of dollars in funding for Haiti as the Caribbean nation is beset by political violence and instability. “America needs to stand with the people of Haiti,” Jeffries, a Brooklyn Democrat, told theGrio during his weekly presser. Jeffries said the money should have been released on Wednesday. Haiti has seen a rise in violence, deaths and kidnappings since late February as armed gangs members […]

todayApril 15, 2024 1

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Hakeem Jeffries’ Black church cultivated his House leadership style

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries stood together at the annual National Prayer Breakfast — an opportunity, in the words of one introductory speaker, to “put our political differences aside.” Such differences are vast between Johnson, a staunchly conservative Republican, and Jeffries, a hero to liberal Democrats. But at the prayer breakfast earlier this month, they collegially took turns reading Scripture — evoking how their shared Christianity confronts evil. It was a fleeting […]

todayMarch 2, 2024

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says Republicans are to blame if a shutdown were to occur

House Republicans would threaten the livelihoods of Americans if they backed out of a deal to keep the government open, Democratic lawmakers said. House Speaker Mike Johnson reached a deal with House Democrats to avoid a government shutdown. But GOP hardliners. who complained the agreement doesn’t cut the budget enough, want him to back out of the deal. US House Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks during a press conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 29, […]

todayJanuary 14, 2024

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