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Why it matters: Jeffries will have to make nice with the left next year if Democrats win back the House
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What they're saying: The meeting was "definitely a signal about the kind of Speaker Jeffries would be," said Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of the progressive group OurRevolution.
Key facts
- House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries ' long-standing tensions with his party's left flank resurfaced this week after news broke of his meeting with President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner
- It's less who you meet with than what you do with the meeting," said Adam Green, the co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee
- What they're saying: The meeting was "definitely a signal about the kind of Speaker Jeffries would be," said Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of the progressive group OurRevolution
- Jeffries will have to make nice with the left next year if Democrats win back the House with only a narrow majority
Summary
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries ' long-standing tensions with his party's left flank resurfaced this week after news broke of his meeting with President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. Jeffries will have to make nice with the left next year if Democrats win back the House with only a narrow majority. The Democratic leader defended the meeting in a video posted to social media on Monday, saying that Kushner "asked for a meeting, and I took it, to discuss the affordability crisis. Jeffries (D-N.Y.) suggested Kushner, whose dealings with Saudi Arabia have drawn scrutiny from Democratic congressional investigators, remains a top oversight target. "No one is going to get a pass," he said.