BREAKING: Hakeem Jeffries stands up to Trump’s pick for chief of staff, telling reporters he has zero interest in working with Stephen Miller
Hakeem Jeffries just drew a line, and he drew it with one word.
A reporter asked the Democratic leader, “Will you work with Stephen Miller?”
“No,” Jeffries said, and the room laughed.
Then he explained, calmly and clearly. “Stephen Miller is a stone cold racist and I have zero interest in working with that kind of individual.”
Trump just promoted Miller to White House chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles in the days after the midterm wipeout. Miller is the architect of Trump’s mass deportation policy, and Trump doubled down on him after voters sent a message.
Jeffries isn’t going along with it. Democrats just won control of Congress, and the Democratic leader is making it clear that this majority will answer to the voters who elected it, not to the people Trump puts in the West Wing. Rep. Robert Garcia, the incoming Oversight chairman, has already told Miller to “lawyer up.”
Standing up to power isn’t always loud. Sometimes it’s one word and a steady voice at a podium, saying what millions of Americans are already thinking.
Jeffries said no, and he said it with a smile.