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September 16, 2025
With the support of most Democrats in New York to their party’s candidate for the mayor, the leaders of the minority in Congress still possess.
The leader of the minority in the House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez, speaks to journalists alongside members of the Democratic Committee in the House of Representatives and other aging, including the leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, in the Ohio corridor around the clock in the American Capitol in July 2025 in Washington, DC.
(Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)
The Homstretch stage in most of the elections is determined by the moment the party’s leaders met in a unit offer to gather behind a main party’s candidate-an achievement that even the Republican Party, which was purchased from Trump for the year 2016, was able to withdraw. So it was amazing, as New York Times I mentioned In the support of the Senator in the state of Maryland Chris van Holin for the city’s democratic nominee in the city, Zahran Mamdani, the registry paper collected the Mamadani Holot, the leader of the minority in the House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez, in response to this. By announcing his own support for Mamdani, Van Holin described the New York delegation “without a mess” in Congress, who continued to withhold its support to Mamadani.
So, the spokesperson for Jeffrey Justin Chermol, who undoubtedly examined his comments carefully at employment in Times“Leader Hakim Jeffrez will have more to say about the general elections a long time before November 4.”
This failed is likely to call for Van Hollen’s comments as the handicraft work in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, but it emphasizes the ineffective and driving Jeffrez style in isolation. Democrats in New York, who support Mamdani’s nomination, will need, re In that country The brutal maximum in Cecot Security Prison.
At the time of Van Holin’s visit, Jeffrez He praised the Senator publiclyNevertheless Blueck I mentioned that he told members of his “slowdown” gathering on “El Salvador”, as a member of the Democratic Parliament said – something that was carried out by another of the leader’s spokesperson, albeit by condemning the report as “delicate sources” instead of inaccuracy. In short, Jeffrey was then, as in many other occasions, and seeing how political wind could break before committing himself in both cases. This was a completely good case after Van Holin stood in front of Democratic activists in the state of Iowa in the Bolk Province fryer urging a more decisive and explicit agenda on a “very cautious, not wearing a very helm, and it is very linked to the excellent reconnaissance, the lowering messages, and the donation of it.”
In fact, Jeffrez’s private reaction to Al Salvador visits to Van Holin and other democratic legislators was to observe outside the subject that “Donald Trump has the lowest classification to agree to any president in modern American history”, apparently, a great effort in the field of elimination of patience. “One of the political failures of the Trump administration. Because actions such as the detention of Abrego García- and the presentation of the suspended government to deport it to Ghana-is largely the main event for the White House, which seeks to unify power through the similar of Hamid.
However, this was the reserve position of Ceffrez and his lieutenant in the hill for the first decisive months of Trump’s second term: refusing or reducing the urgent demands of the party’s rule to force the open confrontations with its strong, unwanted agenda in the White House, in democratic nutrition, in the ingenious faith, the illogical political charges. Mid -time. For this reason, for example, Jeffrez and Democrats in the House of Representatives chose a confident dement when Trump made his first appearance in law enforcement in Washington, DC, which condemned the emergency justifications for administration’s actions and reached what the leader called.Drafting message strongly“From the public prosecutor to the White House.
The current issue
Jeffrez gathered to submit a draft spending and immigration law at the White House with Marathon Packading the package from the land of the house – the longest speech in the history of the house. However, the catastrophic action has gone through strict party lines, thanks to this somewhat due to the death of three democratic legislators in the constitutional oath in Congress 119 in January. The image divided on the screen of the party’s leader in the party leads media coverage during the discussion of the hall of the procedure, but it lacks the basic numbers to thwart its passage due to the commitment of the blind partisan commitment to the generosity of almost the girnotine virtue of the gatherings of democratic gatherings that resist the risks of new ideas and new ruling curricula.
The same leaves are found in the support of the democratic leadership of the extermination of sexual intercourse in Gaza – a major factor in the low popular wealth of the party, as Jeffrez played a major role that cannot be defended. Despite his recent statement that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached the “collapse point” under the Trump administration watch, Jeffrez voted in favor of legislation to suspend funding from the United Nations relief work for Palestinian refugees in the Near East (Una), on the basis of unconfirmed charges from Ishiliel in which the agency’s employees participated on October 7, remained Massachusetts. As a leader of the gathering, he did nothing to apply for a draft law by Democratic actor André Carson from Indiana to restore funding to UNRWA – let’s alone scale by actors Rashida Talib from Michigan and Pamela Javal from Washington to ban US arms shipments to Israel. like Spencer is written“These are the material steps, not the steps to stop the genocide and save the life of the Palestinian. The choice is. The ruling is history.”
In fact, while the gathering leader is not primarily accused of the Department of Daily Legislative Business, Jeffrez’s efforts on this front She is significantly fadedEspecially compared to the tracking record of his predecessor, California actress Nancy Pelosi, who The difficulties of the assembly moved During the minority exile periods (in fact, the House of Representatives held a majority of four years of 16 years). Jeffrols is in the unfortunate situation of direct battles and wrapping with the White House on major issues such as Gaza, crime and immigration, with a failure to provide leadership and guidance that affects the need in the democratic experience that affects the need. No wonder Pelosi was clearly angry at the heat of the government confrontation last spring “to” to “Use your strength“
This seam acquires a renewed urgency, as Congress prepares to confront another spending – and a possible government closure – at the end of the month. To date, JeffRies and Schumer builds a strategy that seeks to do so Restore some brutal cuts To the law of reasonable prices, it was admitted to Trump spending legislation. While this is a goal that cannot be denied in itself, it rarely commensurate with the size of the tyranny that he is now on the request of the White House Trump and its allies in the Congress.
For a long party, correctly, the Maga Caesarea threat and the referee -hosting agenda of Democrats condemned the year 2025 to count insurance subsidies to create the positive issue before the 2026 voters were closer to assembling a bucket for a tsunami support. For this reason, Charles Gaba, the pioneering lawyer, rescued the tax credits ACA, condemned this matter Destruction strategy, weak. This is also the reason for a variety of critics Won, Wonk and Wonk Josh Marshall to Newonan Jennifer Robin It calls out loudly to the democratic leadership on the hill to seize this moment of the leverage to fight and obtain meaningful concessions and materials from the republican opposition. So, instead of his employees serving footage of his critics in the Senate, Jeffreys will be much better by making sure that the suspended spending battle produces a legacy that gathering members can run with confidence in 2026.
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