Jeffries faces leadership test as Democrats fight for committee posts to battle Trump
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is facing his first big leadership test in the new Trump era as congressional Democrats push for a shakeup in their party’s approach to countering the incoming president.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is facing his first big leadership test in the new Trump era as congressional Democrats push for a shakeup in their party’s approach to countering the incoming president. A handful of House Democrats are taking the rare step of challenging older — and, in their words, ineffective — colleagues for coveted committee leadership positions as they look to start a new chapter of Democratic resistance when President-elect Donald Trump takes office and Republicans take control of both chambers of Congress. The Democrat vs. Democrat clash is, in part, a fight over the party’s future messengers as it looks to rebuild after crushing losses in 2024. A number of Democrats who were once willing to wait their turn on the leadership ladder have suddenly lost their patience. After watching President Joe Biden wait months to step aside only to hand over the White House to Trump, those Democrats are now more eager to challenge their party’s conventions — including the sacrosanct principle of seniority in leadership. In public, Jeffries, a reserved leader who is known for being selective about when he puts his thumb on the scale, has not weighed in on whether he would back Rep. Jamie Raskin’s challenge to Rep. Jerry Nadler, the long-serving top Democrat on the influential House Judiciary Committee. But several Democrats at Jeffries’ leadership table have privately been egging on Raskin, who is 16 years’ Nadler’s junior, as they hunt for the best attack dog in Trump’s Washington, according to four people familiar with the discussions. Raskin, who currently holds the top Democratic spot on the House’s Oversight panel, is choosing to instead run for Judiciary because he considers it the “the headquarters of Congressional opposition to authoritarianism.” “Our unified Caucus must strategize and organize like never before—every single one of us working together every single day until we win the House back in 2026 and then beyond that,” Raskin wrote in a letter to fellow Democrats on Monday.
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