The minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, was filled with journalists on Friday, going back against the notion that the Democratic Party is fractured since some Senate Democrats, including their leader, were on the cusp of joining the Republicans to avoid a closure of the government.
“Is it time for a new leadership in the Senate?” A journalist asked.
“Next question,” Jeffries replied, in particular, held his public support to the Chuck Schumer Senate Leader.
“There are some colleagues of yours here in the house who feel betrayed. Is that what you are feeling now?” Another journalist asked.
The minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, speaks along with representatives Pete Aguilar and Katherine Clark during a press conference on Capitol Hill on March 14, 2025.
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“The vote has not yet happened,” said Jeffries.
“Have you lost confidence in him, since you see this in a different way?” A journalist asked.
“Next question,” Jeffries repeated, dismissing the scathing consultation.
“Are none of you willing to say at this time that you have confidence in Chuck Schumer as a leader?” Rachael Bade, news collaborator of ABC and head of the Washington Main Columnist and Main Columnist.
“You are still participating in these room games because you want you to focus on the American people,” Jeffries dodged.
The minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, speaks during a press conference at the United States Capitol in Washington, on March 14, 2025.
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It was a common strategy of Jeffries, who repeatedly rejected the attempts of journalists to learn more about divisions among the Democrats of the House of Representatives and Schumer, who announced on Thursday that he would vote to maintain the open government.
Schumer’s announcement has been received with the complete criticisms of the Democrats of the House of Representatives, who were not impotent to prevent Republicans from passing the measure at the beginning of this week.
“The Democrats of the House of Representatives are here. We are ready to approve a four -week expenditure bill that keeps the open government and will allow the Chamber and the Senate to negotiate a real agreement that meets the needs of the US people,” said Jeffries, Dn.y.,. “But we do not support a bill designed to damage the American people that Donald Trump and extremely -right extremist republicans are trying to click on the throat of everyday Americans.”
Jeffries continued to press for a one -month stop measure, having the hope that the Senate Democrats prevent the draft from passing and the appropriators reconvene the bipartisan negotiations.
“We will see what happens in the Senate, there are still undecided and unst declared senators, and we look forward to that vote,” Jeffries said.
As Caucus melts internally by Schumer’s decision, the Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives returned to the Capitol activated on Friday morning after their retirement from Caucus in Leesburg, Virginia, this week.
“What the American people need to know is that the Democrats of the House of Representatives are willing to work in a bipartisan way to maintain the open government for 30 days,” said the president of the House of Representatives, Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., He said. “That’s all we want. That is our solution.”
The leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, speaks on the floor of the Senate, on March 14, 2025.
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While Schumer’s influence on his Caucus remains to be seen before the planned vote this afternoon, the whip of the minority of the representatives camera, Katherine Clark, also ruled out the so -called “living room game” that divided the Democratic Party, and minimized Schumer’s celebrity and national influence, despite the fact that it has served in the Senate for a quarter of a century and has been the leader of the party since 2017.
“Most Americans can’t name us. They don’t know who Chuck Schumer is, but they do know what this administration and Elon Musk and the Republican party are planning them,” said Clark, D-Mass, said.
The minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, speaks at a press conference with the American representative Pete Aguilar in Capitol Hill in Washington, on March 14, 2025.
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When asked if he is afraid to say if he has confidence in Schumer, Jeffries became defensive if he is not completely angry.
“I do not characterize my comments. I am not afraid of anything. Nothing. I was much clear that we hope to work with each of our Senate Democratic colleagues, each of them to reject Trump’s administration,” Jeffries said in Camera, leaving the newspaper in a group with reporters.
“Do you think this is what matters to the American people, right?” Jeffries joked, when he was pressed again in his confidence in Schumer.
