Hakeem Jeffries won't commit to blocking additional Iran war funding
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday would not commit to blocking any additional funding for the war in Iran, saying the president has so far failed to justify the war but “we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.”
The New York Democrat was asked on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” whether House Democrats would move to block a funding request if the White House were to ask for more money for the military.
Jeffries said the administration has so far “failed to make its case ... for this war of choice in the Middle East,” and unless President Donald Trump provides a “compelling rationale,” he’s “going to have a difficult case to make on Capitol Hill.”
Congress last year approved a $900 billion defense spending bill as part of routine annual budget appropriations, and the president signed the bill into law in December. But since the U.S. began its military operation in Iran, lawmakers have been considering the need to pass additional defense spending to bolster the U.S. military.
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Him and Schumer must have dinner with McConnell every night because holy shit these two fucks are doing everything they can to screw over Democrats the same way McConnell has for over a decade.
How did Jeffries go from being a rising star for the Democratic party to best buds with Schumer, McConnell and Fetterman?
I don't really remember him ever being a rising star. He was in tight with Pelosi and able to pull a bunch of big money, but he was never the go to guy to present the Democratic case on an issue. No one ever talked about how that guy could be president some day.
This. He was groomed to be a party insider by the most insider of party insiders.
i'm convinced many democrats are just republican plants who ran as democrats to sabotage democrats and enable republicans.
They're called DINOs
Well now that's a thought that's going to fester. 🤔🙁
Yep.
Democrat party is like 18 parties in a trench coat.
but anytime you see someone running as a democrat, and as soon as they win, they allign 100% with republican votes and desires, its hard not to believe that they are some paid shill whose goal was to infiltrate and take democrat votes away in favor of republicans.
Yeah Kyrsten Sinema comes straight to mind. That woman was an absolute plant by the Republican party.
It doesn't matter who they have dinner with when they answer to their handlers at AIPAC. Israel wants this war so they will make a few noises to pretend to be opposition but do everything tangible to support it.
That’s what shits me about Jeffries and Schumer, the others are compromised, these blokes are in it for the money.
Neoliberals and old school Republicans have always been friendly because they've always had the same goals...
Like, you're right, but after we had to spend 4 years watching Biden do the same things and explicitly say he wished we could just go back to it any chance he got, it's kind of like saying the sky is blue
Even the DNC realized it a year ago. And they don't exactly keep their finger on the pulse.
Jefferies and Schumer are lame ducks and have been since this congress started.
We'll capture majorities in the midterms and the next congress Dems will be free to vote for the leadership they want, which should match what dem voters want.
At least closer than Biden/Schumer/Jeffries was
How about we commit to blocking Hakim Jeffries? Primary that fucking bitch. LFG.
Hakeem Jeffries has been paid over 1.5 Million dollars by AIPAC.
Aka AIPAC Shakur Jeffries
Because there isn't a justification, Hakeem, you dimwitted fucking moron.
Democrats like this guy are literally less than useless. With friends like these who needs enemies.
You need controlled opposition so the oligarchy isn’t obvious.
So AIPAC gave him his marching orders?
Hakeem Jeffries won't commit to risking his AIPAC money.
What a fucking disappointment and tool. No doubt his tool district voted to re-elect him.
Shouldn’t this be 1’s?
Different systems have different methods of doing surprise, but the implication here is you roll to see if you are surprised, and success means you are not surprised.
Why do democrats just suck so much? None of them have any balls and it is impossible not to see them as also bought and paid for.
The same reason they have the government they do.
People refuse to participate meaningfully in elections. In this case, primaries.
What exists, reflects the participation exactly. Republicans have the strength they do, because their people vote and they do what they say they’re going to do, even if it’s bad. The rest of the country, the same thing. The Democrats are spineless and their people along with the neutrals who are selfish anyway, won’t participate.
For the record THE ENTIRE HOUSE IS UP for reelection.
Fucking get rid of these spineless cretins
What about Epstein?
Alternative headline:
Invertebrate Continues To Lack Spine
TRAITOR
Of course he won't be cause besides some procedural issues and some disagreements about goals and framing this war is decades in the making and bipartisan.
What a great leader. We all know the best leaders aren't able to commit to things.
When we talk about parasites of society, that leeches on the money of the state while offering nothing of value, this is it.
Why would he stop it. Dems and gop have been hoping for this for decades and this makes the GOP the bad guys
Don’t call them spineless — this is what they’re for.
it takes balls to sell out your entire party and embarass everyone you've ever known or will know.
Is this what the people of Brooklyn want?
Of course he won’t because his Israel checks won’t come in the mail anymore.
Useless.
Congresscritters on both sides have made it clear that they see their whole job as supporting Israel. So of course they wouldnt block any Iran war funding. Israel has been wanting America to do this war for decades.
It just occurred to me that I have not heard any news from the Senate parliamentarian in the past year.
I won't commit to not spitting in this ghoul's face, should the opportunity arise.
He's right. Even when starting a war was a mistake, you can't just pretend that you didn't. Stopping unilaterally isn't necessarily the best course of action.
This is why presidents shouldn't be able to start wars.
Fixed it for you.