House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday would not commit to blocking any additional funding for the war in Iran, saying the president has so far failed to justify the war but “we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.”
The New York Democrat was asked on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” whether House Democrats would move to block a funding request if the White House were to ask for more money for the military.
Jeffries said the administration has so far “failed to make its case … for this war of choice in the Middle East,” and unless President Donald Trump provides a “compelling rationale,” he’s “going to have a difficult case to make on Capitol Hill.”
Congress last year approved a $900 billion defense spending bill as part of routine annual budget appropriations, and the president signed the bill into law in December. But since the U.S. began its military operation in Iran, lawmakers have been considering the need to pass additional defense spending to bolster the U.S. military.
Him and Schumer must have dinner with McConnell every night because holy shit these two fucks are doing everything they can to screw over Democrats the same way McConnell has for over a decade.
How did Jeffries go from being a rising star for the Democratic party to best buds with Schumer, McConnell and Fetterman?
i’m convinced many democrats are just republican plants who ran as democrats to sabotage democrats and enable republicans.
They’re called DINOs
I don’t really remember him ever being a rising star. He was in tight with Pelosi and able to pull a bunch of big money, but he was never the go to guy to present the Democratic case on an issue. No one ever talked about how that guy could be president some day.
This. He was groomed to be a party insider by the most insider of party insiders.
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It doesn’t matter who they have dinner with when they answer to their handlers at AIPAC. Israel wants this war so they will make a few noises to pretend to be opposition but do everything tangible to support it.
That’s what shits me about Jeffries and Schumer, the others are compromised, these blokes are in it for the money.
Neoliberals and old school Republicans have always been friendly because they’ve always had the same goals…
Like, you’re right, but after we had to spend 4 years watching Biden do the same things and explicitly say he wished we could just go back to it any chance he got, it’s kind of like saying the sky is blue
Even the DNC realized it a year ago. And they don’t exactly keep their finger on the pulse.
Jefferies and Schumer are lame ducks and have been since this congress started.
We’ll capture majorities in the midterms and the next congress Dems will be free to vote for the leadership they want, which should match what dem voters want.
At least closer than Biden/Schumer/Jeffries was