Hakeem Jeffries Archives

Jeffries Calls for Full Disclosure of Epstein Files

July 16, 2025 Buck Banks

“If you’re not hiding anything, prove that to the American people. And if you are trying to hide something, as many of Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters apparently believe, then the Congress should work hard to uncover the truth for the American people.”

— House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), quoted by the Washington Post, calling for the full release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Jeffries Calls for Trump Cognitive Test

September 13, 2024 Buck Banks

“Can someone give this guy a cognitive test? It’s not clear to me that he’s actually mentally fit to do the job.”

— House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), quoted by CNN, on Donald Trump’s performance in this week’s debate.

Saving Johnson’s Bacon

May 2, 2024 Buck Banks

She’s a one-woman hit squad, is Mad Marge Greene,
And her plan for Mike Johnson is nasty and mean.
But she’ll be disappointed
When the votes are all counted
And she finds that she’s lost to the Dems and Hakeem.

Jeffries Taunts Greene Over Johnson Vote

May 2, 2024 Buck Banks

“Fresh bait always finds a fish. Jeffries throwing that out there, it’s chum in the water. Everyone knows what he did.”

— A senior GOP official, quoted by Politico, on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) riling Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) by offering to save Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from a motion to vacate.

Jeffries Beats McCarthy in Fundraising

July 18, 2023 Buck Banks

$29 million

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) raised $29 million in the second quarter, Punchbowl News reports. That outpaces Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) haul and positions Jeffries as a worthy fundraising successor to Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

Jeffries: GOP Is ‘Chaos, Crisis, Confusion and Craziness’

December 22, 2022 Buck Banks

“Look at what’s happening right now. House Republicans are attacking Senate Republicans. Senate Republicans are calling House Republicans silly and immature. The leadership situation is in chaos. … Marjorie Taylor Greene is fighting with Lauren Boebert. And George Santos appears to be starring in the sequel to Catch Me If You Can. And it’s not even January 3rd. … The circus has already come to town. Chaos, crisis. Confusion and craziness. Versus Democrats who deliver for the American people.”

— Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the leader-elect of the House Democratic caucus, reported by Mediaite.

Jeffries Nails Trump in One Short Sentence

January 14, 2021 Buck Banks

“Donald Trump is a living, breathing impeachable offense.”

— Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), announcing his support of impeaching President Trump.

Jeffries: Trump Is the ‘Grand Wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue’

January 22, 2019 Buck Banks

“These are challenging times in the United States of America. We have a hater in the White House: the birther in chief, the grand wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”

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Jeffries Calls for Full Disclosure of Epstein Files

“If you’re not hiding anything, prove that to the American people. And if you are trying to hide something, as many of Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters apparently believe, then the Congress should work hard to uncover the truth for the American people.”

— House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), quoted by the Washington Post, calling for the full release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Jeffries Calls for Trump Cognitive Test

“Can someone give this guy a cognitive test? It’s not clear to me that he’s actually mentally fit to do the job.”

— House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), quoted by CNN, on Donald Trump’s performance in this week’s debate.

Saving Johnson’s Bacon

Jeffries Taunts Greene Over Johnson Vote

“Fresh bait always finds a fish. Jeffries throwing that out there, it’s chum in the water. Everyone knows what he did.”

— A senior GOP official, quoted by Politico, on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) riling Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) by offering to save Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from a motion to vacate.

Jeffries Beats McCarthy in Fundraising

$29 million

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) raised $29 million in the second quarter, Punchbowl News reports. That outpaces Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) haul and positions Jeffries as a worthy fundraising successor to Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

Jeffries: GOP Is ‘Chaos, Crisis, Confusion and Craziness’

— Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the leader-elect of the House Democratic caucus, reported by Mediaite.

Jeffries Nails Trump in One Short Sentence

“Donald Trump is a living, breathing impeachable offense.”

— Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), announcing his support of impeaching President Trump.

Jeffries: Trump Is the ‘Grand Wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue’

“These are challenging times in the United States of America. We have a hater in the White House: the birther in chief, the grand wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”

— Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), quoted by the HuffPost, referencing the leader of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

Numerati

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.