Jeffries: 'House Democrats Fight For The People'

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., spoke to reporters after being elected by House Democrats to serve as their party leader and promised to advocate for everyday Americans and hoped to work together with Republicans when possible.



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Jeffries: 'House Democrats Fight For The People'

[noahvannote]

Just replace "the people" with "the corporations" and everything he said was actually true.

[bobduato]

"We fight for the people that give us the most money"

[BluePlanet]

If you've been fighting for the people for the last 2 years you've been losing badly!

[robertrusnak]

Fight for the people 🫵🤣🫵! That’s a good one 🫵🤣🫵

[alexfrideres]

By “the people” they mean “themselves and their ultra rich donors” right?

[ricksnell]

Seems like they are fighting the people rather than fighting for them. Also, does this look like it was his first time speaking in front of people?

[Inevertouchmycarrot]

The fight for obedience and control of speech and thought aka democracy.

[zachdugan]

"House Democrats fight for the people".
That's pretty good. This guy should do stand-up.

[onlygenders]

No, they fight for special interest groups. Not the people.

[stealthmako]

Fight to make people do exactly what we tell them to do is what he meant

[ShinAkakage]

Fight for us by dealing with the rising costs of food, gas and the overall cost of living. Fight for us by aggressively tackling rising crime rates and keeping criminals off the street. Fight for us by protecting children and getting our test scores up. Fight for us by reducing poverty in our neighborhoods. Fight for us by dealing with the actual issues FIRST. Everything else is hyperbole.

[bringurownvibe]

Literally neither party fight for working class people. They're both rich corporate defenders

[curtrodgers]

Lock up all Goverment worker's that take corporate donation's If you work for the people you have to do your job and look out for the vast majority of them.

[johnburkes]

I wonder why no one's noticed that they keep promising the same thing every time and even when they hold all the power they never deliver because if they deliver they wouldn't have anything to campaign on

[Freespeech]

I pray one day that all news stops reporting for their own agendas.

[leftoverporkchop]

It's about time people start fighting for themselves, and stop relying on the government to do it for them.

[hughbetcha]

Fighting for the people with high inflation and gasoline prices!🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

[Christian-jxnx]

The obvious fact is that if government always served the people, there wouldbe no division, fighting for or corruption. Congress hasn’t served the people in decades. Everyone knows this yet continues to lie about it. It doesn’t take a genius to fix our country. It just takes some people with common sense and a will to serve others instead of themselves. We just don’t have enough honest men to make a difference.

[nickgray]

Yea, unfortunately those people are their fellow democrats and anyone willing to launder money for him.

[niclewis]

Congratulations Rep Jeffries and good luck it's going to be two years of crazy and chaos as Republican factions continue to battle for full control of their Party.