Hakeem Jeffries

Here’s what it will mean for the American people: Children will get hurt. Women will get hurt. Older Americans who rely on Medicaid for nursing home care and for home care will get hurt.

This is one big, ugly bill that House Republicans are trying to jam down the throats of the American people under the cover of darkness.

When the votes are ultimately cast on that first Tuesday in November next year, this day may very well turn out to be the day that House Republicans lost control of the United States House of Representatives.

Even as he battled a difficult cancer diagnosis, Ranking Member Connolly continued to push back against the unprecedented attacks on the federal workers in his district and across the country.

As a result of this bill, nearly 14 million Americans will lose their healthcare, and millions more will pay higher premiums, co-pays and deductibles.

The proceeding initiated by the so-called U.S. Attorney in New Jersey is a blatant attempt by the Trump administration to intimidate Congress.

The House Democratic Caucus and our nation are praying for President Joe Biden and his family as he battles this challenging medical diagnosis.

We appear to be in violation of the House rules, given that the law that was passed in 2022 required that a plaque honoring those heroic police officers be placed on the western front of the Capitol Building no later than March 15, 2023…

Keep your hands off of members of Congress.

The unjust decision to fire Dr. Hayden in an email sent by a random political hack is a disgrace and the latest in his ongoing effort to ban books, whitewash American history and turn back the clock.

The Library of Congress is the People’s Library. There will be accountability for this unprecedented assault on the American way of life sooner rather than later.

Donald Trump’s unjust decision to fire Dr. Hayden in an email sent by a random political hack is a disgrace and the latest in his ongoing effort to ban books, whitewash American history and turn back the clock.

When the American people woke up this morning, they could reasonably ask the question, ‘What are their elected representatives on the floor of the House of Representatives going to be debating?’

What Republicans have decided to spend this entire legislative day doing is to debate a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico.

The discharge petition is now live on the House floor.

One of the reasons that [Judge] is a great hitter is that he does not swing at every pitch. He waits for the right one and then he swings. We’re not going to swing at every pitch. We’re going to swing at the ones that matter for the…

Health care is under assault by Donald Trump, Elon Musk, the administration and rubber-stamp Republicans in the House and in the Senate.

What leverage do we have?

As we prepare to come back into session tomorrow, this is a time to choose. And we're either going to choose the side of the American people, or we're going to choose this cruel budget that Republicans are trying to jam down the throats of…

An existential struggle to defeat Republican efforts to try to jam a very reckless budget down the throats of the American people.

Enough. This is not America. We will continue to show up, speak up and stand up until we end this national nightmare.

We're either going to choose the side of the American people, or we're going to choose this cruel budget that Republicans are trying to jam down the throats of the American people.

As we prepare to come back into session tomorrow, this is a time to choose.

This week, we’ll be having a ‘cost of living’ week of action, and we have to continue to talk to the American people about our plans.

Republicans are trying to kill Social Security from the inside — it is a cut by another name — and we won’t let that happen.