With most of the Democrats New York, who approve the candidate for the mayor party, two minority leaders in the congress remain with hold.

The House of Minority leader Jeffries talks to journalists together with other members of the Democratic Committee for Demoraut Committees, including the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Shumer in the Hours of Ohio in the US Capitol in July 2025 in Washington.
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The phase of the house in most elections notes the moment when party leaders are going together in a unity demonstration to rally on a candidate on a major podzviga party, who even frightened Trump in 2016. So it was strange that as The New York Times report In the approval of Senator Maryland, Chris Van Holen, in the city’s city nominee, Zohran Mamdani, in response, dropped in response the one that knocked out the unified content of Mamman, the minority leader of the Hockey Hockey Jeffryis. Announcing Mamman’s own support for his own support, Van Hollen called on the New York “continuous” delegation in Congress, which continued to refuse to support Mamman.
Thus, the press -secretary Jeffreis Justin Chermol, who is undoubtedly Term.
This unsuccessfully, Zinger, probably aimed at provoking Van Halen’s comments as a handmade Atlantic interliper, but he emphasized the ineffective and in the style of Jeffrist’s leadership responsibility for the Democrats when the party is preparing for the next battle for the future of a government closing at the end of the month. In New York Democrats who strongly support Mammani’s candidacy, it is most likely not needed to get acquainted with Van Holen, who demonstrated a stronger moral leadership than many national democrats, going to Salvador to visit the unfairly detained immigrant Kilmar Armanda Garcia render In this country Hard Prison with maximum security Cecot.
At the time of Van Hollen’s visit, Jeffries Publicly appreciated the senatorthough Boulevard He reported that he also told his members to “slow” on “Salvador’s things”, as one of the members of the Democratic House put it – the accusation was that the other with the press -secretary of the leader denied, albeit announce the report as a “subtle submission”, not inaccurate. In short, Jeffris was then, as in many other cases, seeing how political wind could break before he committed himself anyway. This was too typical study after Van Halllen stood before the Democratic activists in Iowa on the slender steak of the regional district called for a more decisive and penetrating agenda on the party, which “too careful, too steering, too tied to the poll, washed and donor reports.”
Indeed, Jeffries’s Own reaction to the el salvador visits of Van Hollen and Other Democratic Lawmakers Was The Off-Topic Observation that “Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating History ”–another labored and anemic effort, apparently, to sugozest that Whole Controversy Over The political failures of the Trump administration. That grows litany Techniques Messages Democratic leaders also criticize Van Halen’s party, as actions such as the detention of Abreg Garci-I expected government, which seeks to deport it to Gana is a very main event for the White House, which seeks to secure its power through the intimidation of the mafia and the authoritarian spectacle.
However, this became a reserve position of Jeffreris and his lieutenants hills during the important first months of Trump: to reject or humiliate the urgent requirements of the party’s base to force open confrontations with unpopular melting in the white house, in the mascotic faith that entered the southern avenues. That is why, for example, Jeffreris and the leading Democrats at home chose a differential strategy when Trump made his debut in his federal law enforcement agencies in Washington, announcing the justification for the administration’s action and advertising what the leader called “strongly formulated the letter“From the DC Prosecutor General to the White House.
Jeffries rallied towards the introduction of the White House’s signature bill a marathon speech Opening the package from the floor of the house is the longest speech in the history of the house. However, the catastrophic measure was on a strict party line, thanks to not a small part of the death of three democratic legislators who swore in the 119th Congress in January. The image of the divided screen of the party’s leader commanded the media coverage during the measures over the floor discussion, but lacking the basic numbers to thwart the blind commitment of the coacus to the gerontocratic rule, which summarizes the heavy situation of the democratic democratic coak.
The same disease suffers from the terrible support of Gaza Gazaid – the central factor in reducing the popular success of the party, in which Jeffris played a negative and unjustified role. Despite the recent speech in the fact that the humanitarian crisis reached a “turning point” under the clock of the Trump administration, Jeffris voted in favor of the legislation on the suspension of UN financing for Palestinian refugees in the Middle East (Arva), on the basis of unproven charges. As a co -leader, he did nothing to promote a bill from a Democratic representative Andre Carson from Indiana to restore the Anva’s financing – to strengthen only the event given by Rashid Tlaib from Michigan and Papal Jaapal from Washington to US departures to Israel. As Spencer Ackerman writes“These are material, not rhetorical steps to stop genocide and save Palestinian life. Choice is him. The court is a story.”
Indeed, while the coacus leader is not primarily accused of managing everyday legislative business, Jeffrist’s efforts on this front noticeably insufficientEspecially compared to the services of its predecessor, California Nancy Pelosi’s representative moved by the difficulties of the direction to the coaches During the periods of the minority expulsion (indeed, the house occupied most of the four years as a leader). Jeffris is in an unhappy position of direct and galvanizing fighting with key issues such as gas, crime and immigration, without having a desperate guide and direction for the party that acts without an effective political compass at the key moment of the crisis in the branched democratic experiment. It was not for nothing that he was clearly annoyed by Pelosi called him in the heat of the final expenses for the government spring to “to”Use your strength“
This request acquires a new urgency, as Congress is preparing for another cost trial – and the possible termination of the government – at the end of the month. So far, Jeffris and Sumer are building a strategy that aspires restore some rigid cuts to the law on accessible care adopted in Trump’s legislation. Although this is undoubtedly a decent goal by itself, it is unlikely to be commensurate with the authoritarian path, which is now under the will of the White House of Trump and its GoP allies in Congress.
For a long and right party, it has announced the threat of Cesarism of Maga and the anti -democratic agenda of 2025 to count on insurance subsidies to make a positive case before the 2026 voter, approximately the assembly of the bucket to reject the tsunami. That’s why Charles Gabba, a lead supporter of rescue tax credits ACA, announced it as myopic, weak strategy. This is also why an ideologically diverse set of critics Center-Lev Wonk Josh Marshall by Recovery necon Jennifer Rubin Loudly, they call for a democratic leadership on the hill to take advantage of the leverage to fight and obtain significant and material concessions by the republican opposition. So, instead of his staff, he hosted a pot in his critics in the Senate, Jeffries would be much better served, guaranteeing that the expected struggle produces a legacy that its coaches can confidently run in 2026. If he does not, voters across the country may soon ask, “Hockey, who?”
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