By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-15 19:54:57 | Updated at 2024-11-23 01:05:02
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Jeffries urges Senate GOP to serve as check on ‘particularly out of control’ president-elect
The Hill ^ | 11/15/2024 | Mike Lillis -
Posted on 11/15/2024 11:36:57 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called on Senate Republicans on Friday to act as a check on the incoming Trump administration — a response to a handful of controversial Cabinet nominations announced by the former president this week.
Jeffries declined to weigh in specifically on President-elect Trump’s list of picks, which includes two of Jeffries’s former House colleagues: Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), nominated to become attorney general and director of national intelligence, respectively.
But he strongly suggested they, and other Trump selections, are unfit to command the agencies they’ve been tapped to lead, and he urged Senate Republicans — who will control the upper chamber next year — not to rubber-stamp the nominees out of a blind loyalty for the new Republican president.
“The Senate has a job,” Jeffries said during a press briefing in the Capitol. “They should focus — meaning the Senate Republicans — on being a separate and co-equal branch of government and serving as a check and balance on a particularly out-of-control, when it emerges, administration. That’s their job.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: control; gop; jeffries; presidentelect; senate; serve
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You lost and you lost bad. How about shutting up?
To: ChicagoConservative27
We need to get the muzzies out of our government. They are TRAITORS.
2 posted on 11/15/2024 11:37:59 AM PST by jimbug
To: ChicagoConservative27
Can’t somebody shut the boy up. He’s got a big mouth for a freeloader.
3 posted on 11/15/2024 11:38:11 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Jamaicans Haitians and Indians used to run motels and 7-11s. Now,they run Congress and the judiciary)
To: ChicagoConservative27
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) needs to be Gitmo’d for treason.
4 posted on 11/15/2024 11:39:31 AM PST by Paladin2
To: ChicagoConservative27
DEI Hakkeem got the hand jive flowing though. And the Barack stilted lilt. Watch out America. He’s a Turkey.
5 posted on 11/15/2024 11:40:42 AM PST by Kudsman (Hey,, Democrat,,leave them kids alone!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Key word minority stop acting like you won because you didnt
6 posted on 11/15/2024 11:41:04 AM PST by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
The GOP members of the US Senate rubber stamped virtually every wacky nut job appointment Obama and Biden put up
For the Alt Left, after the parade of radical extremists nuts they put the last 4 years, to claim Trump picks are unqualified is absurd in the extreme
7 posted on 11/15/2024 11:42:39 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
You can just see how the Left is spooling up the fear machine. Deliberately trying to sabotage the administration. They can’t stand being relegated to the bleacher seats.
8 posted on 11/15/2024 11:45:21 AM PST by Obadiah
To: ChicagoConservative27
9 posted on 11/15/2024 11:45:30 AM PST by Dick Bachert (TH )
To: ChicagoConservative27
Shouldn’t this dumb bass turd be playing football or basketball?
10 posted on 11/15/2024 11:45:53 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Jamaicans Haitians and Indians used to run motels and 7-11s. Now,they run Congress and the judiciary)
To: ChicagoConservative27
STFU, punk. You lost. And lost biggly. Maybe you should go hide out on Qatar. Oh wait, Qatar is tossing Jeffries’ pals out now.
11 posted on 11/15/2024 11:46:16 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: MNJohnnie
12 posted on 11/15/2024 11:46:46 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Sure, let’s take advice from the losing party. /sarc That would be stupid. Not that the GOPe is known for their collective mental acuity.
13 posted on 11/15/2024 11:46:57 AM PST by madison10
To: ChicagoConservative27
14 posted on 11/15/2024 11:47:11 AM PST by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
To: MNJohnnie
15 posted on 11/15/2024 11:48:04 AM PST by Enterprise (These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Trying to have control now.
16 posted on 11/15/2024 11:49:11 AM PST by lurk (u)
To: ChicagoConservative27
In the words of your exalted messiah, “elections have consequences”. So STFU.
To: ChicagoConservative27
This is the clown that would’ve happily got rid of the filibuster if they won because you know they would’ve had a”mandate”
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