Hakeem Jeffries

Why don't you just keep your mouth shut

You’re a complete and total embarrassment … and you’re going down for defeat next year.

I’ve indulged you. I’ve given you your 15 minutes of fame.

Listen, you’re not going to talk to me … and talk over me because you don’t want to hear what I have to say. So why don’t you just keep your mouth shut.

I voted for a tax cut bill that gave the largest tax cut to Americans in history, including, by the way, the average New Yorker getting a $4,000 tax cut.

What House Republicans need to do is come back so we can address the military pay issue and reopen the government.

We’re not normalizing anything here.

Permanent extension, and let’s go from there in terms of a negotiation.

I believe that we should pay our men and women in uniform and I support the effort of our members to make sure that takes place.

The law is clear — every single furloughed federal employee is entitled to back pay — period, full stop.

Donald Trump is in the presidential witness protection program.

The American people deserve better than lies, than attacks, than deep-fake videos and the president spending all of his time on the golf course.

They’ve already engaged in mass firings.

The next time you have something to say about me, don’t cop out through a racist and fake AI video. When I’m back in the Oval Office, say it to my face.

The Trump administration is targeting the jobs, thousands of jobs of hard-working Americans. Working-class Americans and blue collar Americans will lose the ability to work at the Second Avenue Subway site or at the other project that has…

This is just the latest outrage in a string of documented violence against law-abiding people exercising their rights.

Bigotry will get you nowhere.

Cancel the cuts, lower the cost, save health care.

Democrats wouldn’t agree to a bill that continues to gut the health care of everyday Americans.

Mr. President, next time you have something to say about me, don’t cop out through a racist and fake AI video.

Mr. President, the next time you have something to say about me, don't cop out to a racist and fake AI video. When I'm back in the Oval Office, say it to my face.

Leader Schumer and I are in lockstep.

On behalf of the American people, we're supposed to simply take their word that they're willing to negotiate?

These people have been trying to repeal and displace people off the Affordable Care Act since 2010.

Frank and direct discussion … but significant differences remain.