“The overwhelming consensus on Capitol Hill was that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) would only delay President Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ by about an hour. As noon approached on Thursday, that expectation was shattered,” Axios reports.
“For months, the Democratic base has been demanding their party’s leaders ‘fight harder’ and use every tool at their disposal to stymie the GOP agenda. In the eyes of many lawmakers, this is Jeffries delivering.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the DC Examiner that Jeffries “looks like a bumbling fool.”
Jeffries broke the record for the longest floor speech in the chamber’s history. He spoke for 8 hours and 44 minutes.
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