“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.
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.