Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries launched an hours-long filibuster today, in an unsuccessful try to dam the passage of the Large Stunning Invoice.
The liberal media talked about all of it day. They simply couldn’t get sufficient of Jeffries’ ‘historic’ speech.
Right here’s how CBS News framed the story:
Hakeem Jeffries units document for longest Home speech earlier than vote on Trump’s “large, lovely invoice”
There’s no filibuster within the Home, however Democratic chief Hakeem Jeffries basically carried out one anyway because the Home debated President Trump’s “large, lovely invoice” earlier than it handed on Thursday.
Jeffries held the Home flooring for greater than eight hours, taking his “candy time” with a marathon flooring speech that delayed passage of Republicans’ large tax and spending cuts laws and gave his minority get together a prolonged highlight to excoriate what he known as an “immoral” invoice.
As Democratic chief, Jeffries can converse for so long as he desires throughout debate on laws — therefore its nickname on Capitol Hill, the “magic minute,” that lasts so long as leaders are talking.
He started the speech at 4:53 a.m. ET and completed at 1:37 p.m. ET, 8 hours, 44 minutes later, breaking the document set by then-Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California in 2021, when he was the GOP chief. McCarthy spoke for 8 hours, 32 minutes when he angrily criticized Democrats’ “Construct Again Higher” laws, breaking a document set by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, when she spoke about immigration for 8 hours, 7 minutes in 2018.
So courageous. So historic. One little drawback.
Again in 2021, throughout an look on MSNBC with Al Sharpton, Jeffries known as the filibuster a racist artifact of the Jim Crow period, and complained that the filibuster was permitting individuals to face in the way in which of progress. Watch:
Hey Hakeem, bear in mind this?
2021. Hakeem Jeffries explains that the filibuster is racist and is standing in the way in which of progress. pic.twitter.com/glqWAb67Wr
— MAZE (@mazemoore) July 3, 2025
OOPS.
It’s simply one other reminder that for Democrats, their view of all the things is framed by whether or not it helps their get together or not. On the finish of the day, that’s actually all they care about.
