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‘Bait and switch’: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries calls out Republicans for breaking promise to lower costs

House of Representatives Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., blasted Republicans for not keeping their promise to voters who elected President Donald Trump and gave his party full control of Congress to address the high cost of living. During a House floor speech on Monday, Congressman Jeffries chastised his GOP colleagues for not focusing their first weeks in the new 119th Congress on what they promised would be their focus if voters gave Republicans power in Washington, D.C. “House Democrats […]

todayFebruary 11, 2025

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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries says DEI is actually rooted in the Constitution—here’s where to find it (Watch)

Though President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI has seemingly gutted racial equity for the foreseeable future throughout the federal government (with a snowball effect in the private sector), Democrats continue to push back. Party members have vowed to keep fighting for critical programs that Black and brown communities rely on and, more importantly, to call for the enforcement of the law that still prohibits discrimination. “No president in the United States of America […]

todayJanuary 24, 2025

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5 things you should know about Rep. Jasmine Crockett

Since entering office in January 2023, Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas has made headlines for her spirited remarks at congressional hearings and her strong rebuttals to claims made by her Republican colleagues on Capitol Hill. Crockett is now in her second term as a member of the House of Representatives, and she’s already become one of the most effective and sought-after members of Congress. The 43-year-old congresswoman recently made headlines yet again after clashing with Republican Rep. Nancy Mace […]

todayJanuary 16, 2025 1

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Jasmine Crockett shares what ‘did not go viral’ during clash with Rep. Nancy Mace

U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, addressed the “elephant in the room” while accepting an award at the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast in honor of the civil rights icon. Crockett, who attended the National Action Network event on Wednesday hosted by the Rev. Al Sharpton at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., acknowledged the viral exchange she had with Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, who threatened to fight her during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee […]

todayJanuary 15, 2025

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Rep. Maxine Waters slams media ‘playing politics’ over wildfires and begs people to uplift Altadena’s Black community

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., says enough is enough when it comes to media narratives around political blame in the wake of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires. In a recent appearance on NewsNation, the congresswoman had a spirited debate with anchor Chris Cuomo over what the role of media should be at a time when an estimated 150,000 people have been displaced, 24 have died, and more deceased residents are expected to be found. “I’m not into the blame game. […]

todayJanuary 13, 2025

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett blasts critics trying to blame LA wildfire struggles on ‘DEI’ firefighters

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, had choice words for anyone trying to use DEI as a reason for Los Angeles’ wildfire disaster. In an appearance Wednesday night on CNN, Crockett got into a debate with CNN’s Republican contributor, Scott Jennings, who alleged that LA’s struggles to contain the wildfires had to do with the exclusion of white men from fire department recruiting programs. “In California, you might have recalled a news story from last year … there was some interest in […]

todayJanuary 11, 2025

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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries slams Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ proposal and ‘tax scam’ when ‘America is too expensive’

House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., slammed President-elect Donald Trump‘s proposal to annex Greenland and Canada and rename the Gulf of Mexico. “We are not sent to Washington to invade Greenland, rename the Gulf of Mexico or seize the Panama Canal by force,” said Jeffries during his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill. The House Democratic leader clarified that he and his congressional colleagues were instead elected to lower the high cost of living that American voters made clear […]

todayJanuary 9, 2025

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With a nod to her mentor Shirley Chisholm, Rep. Barbara Lee exits Congress as a renegade herself

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Barbara Lee has always stood apart, a matter-of-fact renegade with a long list of firsts. In high school, she was the first Black student to integrate her Southern California cheerleading squad. During the Democrat’s more than two decades in Congress, she has been the only Black woman elected to the House from California’s regions north of Los Angeles. But it was Lee’s lonely 2001 vote as the only lawmaker against the authorization for the use of military force against those […]

todayJanuary 2, 2025 1

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‘Donald Trump is not a god’: Rep. Bennie Thompson blasts Trump’s call to jail him, reacts to potential Biden pardon

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., is not intimidated by President-elect Donald Trump, who, during an interview on “Meet the Press,” called for the congressman to be jailed for his role as chairman of the special congressional committee investigating Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021 mob attack on the U.S. Capitol. “Donald Trump is not a god,” Thompson told theGrio during a recent interview, reacting to Trump’s unsupported claims that the congressman, along with other committee members like vice chair […]

todayDecember 12, 2024 1