Ralph Nader in a letter to Hakeem Jeffries: "You should resign as Minority Leader and abandon your House Speakership ambition to honor the will of the midterm voters and their impressive vote of confidence in progressive candidates and fundamental changes for the people."
This man is so full of shit. How he says this stuff with a straight face is beyond me.
He had the chance to do something about this THIS WEEK and punted. As usual.
To ALL sitting and soon-to-be-seated Dem reps: If you vote for Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker, you WILL be primaried.
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🫏 House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries again sidestepped whether Democrats would force an end to the US war on Iran through the government funding bill due Dec. 11.
Asked Thursday about progressive calls to attach a rider cutting off war funding, even at the risk of a shutdown, Jeffries said Democrats "need to end the reckless and costly war of choice in Iran" but deferred to Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee.
"I don't want to get out ahead of Congresswoman DeLauro," he said, noting she is in "four corners" talks with the top Republican and Democratic appropriators in both chambers.
Jeffries said House Democrats "have uniformly opposed providing any additional money" to "Pete Hegseth's war machine." But refusing new money is not the same as the rider progressives want, which would bar spending on the war altogether.
This is not leadership, it's the opposite. The buck doesn't stop with Rosa Delauro, it stops with the leader. There was a straightforward question here that @RepJeffries refused to answer. The reason is because he's not planning to end war funding in a meaningful way when he can.
Clips of the protestors who disrupted Hakeem Jeffries at the What's Next conference.
Usually when a speaker gets protested, the crowd cheers over the protestors or defends the speaker. Here, nobody really bothered to stand up for Hakeem.
Tells you he doesn't have a real base.