“Jeffries didn’t even whip the vote,” one critic said about the House minority leader, who wants to be speaker. “This is why people want a stronger leader.”
As House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries seeks to become speaker when Democrats retake Congress in January, critics questioned his leadership Tuesday after the Republican-led lower chamber effectively blocked a bid to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth by just seven votes—an outcome that may have been averted if more Democrats showed up to vote.
The 211-204 procedural vote effectively torpedoed Congressman Thomas Massie’s attempt to impeach Hegseth by sending the outgoing Kentucky Republican’s resolution to the House Judiciary Committee, where it will likely gather dust during the remainder of the GOP-controlled congressional term.
It’s still the same Congress as it was two weeks ago. The new Congress has no power until January 3, when they are sworn in.
Yeah, it’s the old Congress, but this happened in the House under the same guy they want to have lead the House Dems of the next Congress, too. Jeffries not even getting people to show up to keep this alive should be taken as a prime example for why he shouldn’t get to be the next Speaker of the House.
You’re preaching to the choir. Many of us are doing everything we can to get this paid-for shill out of the Speaker role.
Jeffries has taken a LOT of money from not only AIPAC, but Palantir, a company that is making insane profits out of the war in Iran.
Neither Palantir nor AIPAC want Jeffries to allow any censure for Hegseth or anyone else involved in the war, or for anyone advancing their own profiteering to suffer any kind of consequences at all.