House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (DN.Y.) noted that he plans to join the president Donald Trump’s Tuesday night’s speech ahead of the joint meeting of Congress.
“In view of my responsibility in the House, I plan to attend a speech with other members of the Democratic leadership to make it clear to the country that there is a strong opposition ready, willing and capable of as an over-checking and balance of the government,” Jeffries said in a message to his colleagues.
Trump’s speech will be less than two months Second presidential term.
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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York, spoke at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on Thursday, February 6, 2025. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“The decision to attend the party meeting is individual and we know members will come to different conclusions,” Jeffries noted.
He continued: “But it is important to have a strong, firm and dignified democratic presence in the room. The houses as institutions belong to the American people and as their representatives, we will not be eliminated or bullied.”
Some Democratic lawmakers announced they would skip the event.
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President Donald Trump awaits meeting at the White House for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in Washington, DC on February 27, 2025 (Carl Court – Pool/Getty Image)
“The situation in the league is that the president faces the law,” Senator Patty Murray asserted in a Monday article about X. “He has an unelected billionaire fire cancer researcher and a federal agency like the Social Security Agency, as he wants. I’m not going to be a joint address tomorrow.”
The speakers at that time Nancy Pelosi The president delivered a State of the Union address, giving the page of Trump’s speech in 2020.
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“Our focus remains on reducing the high cost of living for everyday Americans and oppose the extreme extremism that the Republicans unleash in the country,” Jeffries said. “Thank you all for your continued leadership in representing the people and defending the American way of life.”
