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.
Why do democrats just suck so much? None of them have any balls and it is impossible not to see them as also bought and paid for.
The same reason they have the government they do.
People refuse to participate meaningfully in elections. In this case, primaries.
What exists, reflects the participation exactly. Republicans have the strength they do, because their people vote and they do what they say they’re going to do, even if it’s bad. The rest of the country, the same thing. The Democrats are spineless and their people along with the neutrals who are selfish anyway, won’t participate.
Don’t call them spineless — this is what they’re for.
It just occurred to me that I have not heard any news from the Senate parliamentarian in the past year.
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
Well now that’s a thought that’s going to fester. 🤔🙁
Yep.
Democrat party is like 18 parties in a trench coat.
but anytime you see someone running as a democrat, and as soon as they win, they allign 100% with republican votes and desires, its hard not to believe that they are some paid shill whose goal was to infiltrate and take democrat votes away in favor of republicans.
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
What a fucking disappointment and tool. No doubt his tool district voted to re-elect him.
How about we commit to blocking Hakim Jeffries? Primary that fucking bitch. LFG.
Aka AIPAC Shakur Jeffries
Shouldn’t this be 1’s?
Different systems have different methods of doing surprise, but the implication here is you roll to see if you are surprised, and success means you are not surprised.
What a great leader. We all know the best leaders aren’t able to commit to things.
Because there isn’t a justification, Hakeem, you dimwitted fucking moron.
Democrats like this guy are literally less than useless. With friends like these who needs enemies.
You need controlled opposition so the oligarchy isn’t obvious.
Is this what the people of Brooklyn want?
So AIPAC gave him his marching orders?
Hakeem Jeffries won’t commit to risking his AIPAC money.
What about Epstein?
Alternative headline:
Invertebrate Continues To Lack Spine
