Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said on Thursday during his weekly press conference. He vowed that Democrats would take the attacks on DEI “head-on” along with civil rights groups. Jeffries ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries put GOP leaders on notice Thursday that they can’t take Democratic votes for granted when it comes to lifting the statutory debt ceiling by this summer’s ...

The Democratic Party has so far been splintered in responding to President Donald Trump’s push against illegal immigration.

A federal judge in Seattle has temporarily blocked President Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship, calling it "blatantly unconstitutional." ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is holding a press conference Thursday at 11:30 a.m. EST, as Republicans look to get President Trump’s agenda rolling in Congress. Speaker Mike ...

Jeffries was confronted by comments he made in a February 2024 appearance on The View, during which he claimed Biden was “the strongest candidate” to defeat then-presidential candidate Donald ...

After alienating Democratic voters with unsubstantiated claims that the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act would empower child predators to give genital examinations to young girls, the ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries met Wednesday with Latino Democratic lawmakers to sharpen the party’s strategy on immigration as President Trump barrels ahead with a wide crackdown that ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) hammered President Trump on Thursday for pardoning those charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, warning that the liberation of hundreds ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday rejected the idea of combining California wildfire aid with a debt ceiling hike, saying Democrats would oppose such a package if ...

The House minority leader did not address a possible larger deal encompassing government spending. Top House Democrats are pouring cold water on a Republican proposal to trade a debt limit ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 23: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) holds a news conference at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center on January 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. Jeffries said he had ...