Things People Say About Hakeem Jeffries

there have been a lot of interesting things that have been thrown out there, haven't taken a position. We have launched a House Democratic Commission on Artificial Intelligence and the Innovation Economy. It's led by Josh Gottheimer, Val Fouchy, and Ted Liu, who himself is an engineer by practice and a very highly thought of member of Congress, very thoughtful member of Congress. They're leading an effort to talk to stakeholders, community members, advocacy groups, in order to actually come up with a thoughtful approach to AI policy as we transition from being in the minority to being in the majority, which is where we believe we will be after the November midterm elections. And we'll sort through all of these issues. But fundamentally, the most important thing is making sure that artificial intelligence as a technology changes lives for the better of everyday Americans, working class Americans, middle-class Americans, and those who aspire to be part of the middle class. And we are going to have to deal with the job implications as it relates to workforce displacement. That will be a core issue that will be on the agenda for us.

Democratic leader? We've got great members of the House Democratic Caucus as well that are leading in a wide variety of different ways. It's not my job to make determinations as to who's the Democratic Party leader. What I can tell you is that Democrats have won elections consistently for the last fourteen months, and so whoever the leader may be, he or she is doing a great job, because literally, we haven't lost a meaningful election in the entirety of the Trump administration, winning races up and down the ballot across the country in places like New Jersey, in New York, in Virginia, in California. Certainly during the off year elections last November in Mississippi, in Georgia, three state Supreme Court races that we swept, in Pennsylvania, and then went on to win races in Florida, the Miami mayors race for the first time in thirty years, and of course these special elections that we've seen dramatic overperformance, most recently in Texas by thirty one points and then in Louisiana, the home state of Mike Johnson and Steve Scalise by thirty seven points in terms of an overperformance from the Trump number. So collectively…

…justices, declared clearly that the President did not have that emergency authority with respect to tariffs and declared them unlawful and unconstitutional. And in the same vein, we'll use every tool available, including suing the heck out of him if he tries to go down this road, to prevent him from trying to rig the mid term elections, because he knows his presidency hasn't been a failure. His policies have been a failure, and Republicans have failed America.

Yeah, What I'm willing to commit to is that we are going to fight hard to drive down the high cost of living. We believe that affordability is the core issue that the American people. What I'm saying our priority is we're not ruling anything in and we're not ruling anything out.

…That's not acceptable in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We think we have a broken health care system that we need to fix, and we certainly have to clean up corruption. The smash and grab program that Donald Trump has been running, the largest pay-to-play scheme in the history of the country, is completely and totally unacceptable. Let me also make clear, I think that the Democratic Party at its best, the country at its best, believes in a strong floor and no ceiling. In other words, you work hard, you play by the rules in this country, you should be able to live an affordable life, a comfortable life, at minimum, a middle-class life. There should be no ceiling, in fact, to the success that you're able to achieve. But at the same period of time, there should be a strong floor. That's what the best of America has always been. And that's Social Security, that's Medicare, that's Medicaid, that's the Affordable Care Act, that's veterans' benefits, that's nutritional assistance, the very thing that Republicans are trying to destroy right now. I remember last time you were on, and you said almost the same thing that you just said, and we all nod. And I know it takes time…