The White Home on Friday referred to as for Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to apologize for remarks pledging to push again in opposition to the Trump administration’s agenda.
Jeffries at a press briefing harassed “the need to look out for everyday New Yorkers and everyday Americans who are under assault by an extreme MAGA Republican agenda that is trying to cut taxes for billionaire donors and wealthy corporations, and then stick New Yorkers and working-class Americans … with the bill.”
“We are gonna fight it legislatively. We are gonna fight it in the courts. And we’re gonna fight it in the streets,” Jeffries mentioned.
A launch from the White Home communications workplace Friday then blasted Jeffries for what it characterised as “a sick call for violence.”
“Will Minority Leader Jeffries apologize for this disgusting threat? Or will he double down on the same calls for violence that have plagued the country for years?” the assertion learn.
Home Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) additionally mentioned on social platform X that Jeffries “should promptly apologize for his use of inflammatory and extreme rhetoric.”
“President Trump and the Republicans are focused on uniting the country; Jeffries needs to stop trying to divide it,” Emmer mentioned.
However Jeffries’s workplace in an announcement obtained by NewsNation flatly denied the inferences about his remarks.
“The notion that Leader Jeffries supports violence is laughable. Republicans are the party that pardons violent felons who assault police officers. Democrats are the party of John Lewis and the right to petition the government peacefully,” the assertion learn.
Jeffries throughout his press convention denounced the now-rescinded federal funding freeze and in addition knocked Trump for suggesting that federal range initiatives contributed to this week’s lethal crash between a army helicopter and an American Airways aircraft close to Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport.
