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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is running for speaker, he announced in a letter to colleagues<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Democrats have long considered the New Yorker \u2014 who has served two terms as minority leader \u2014 the heir apparent to longtime leader Nancy Pelosi. If he wins the Jan. 3 floor vote, he would become the House\u2019s first Black speaker.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgainst all odds, House Democrats were consistently successful in the minority,\u201d Jeffries wrote in the letter. \u201cWe must now deliver the dramatic change the American people are demanding in the majority.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeffries is well-positioned to lead House Democrats next term. Although an incoming crop of hard-left members has not committed to backing him for speaker, no alternative candidate has emerged, and the size of the Democratic majority appears likely to make a small group of holdouts irrelevant.<\/p>\n

In his role leading the caucus, Jeffries has built a reputation as a measured, deliberative leader with strong allies in the Congressional Black Caucus and centrist New Democrat Coalition. His left flank has signaled that they will push him on key priorities like Medicare for All and Israel aid.<\/p>\n

In the letter, Jeffries touted his efforts to oppose President Donald Trump\u2019s policies and personnel and working to overcome the \u201cRepublican gerrymandering scheme\u201d by helping to organize counterefforts in California and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Jeffries emphasized on the campaign trail that he wants to tackle cost-lowering policies that could win broad support in the caucus. In particular, he previewed early votes on ending the Trump administration\u2019s tariffs, clawing back Republican-led Medicaid cuts and restoring expired Affordable Care Act tax credits.<\/p>\n

He also vowed an aggressive oversight agenda that includes probes into Trump, his family, his administration and his corporate allies.<\/p>\n

Chris Marquette contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is running for speaker, he announced in a letter to colleagues Wednesday. Democrats have long considered the New Yorker \u2014 who has served two terms as minority leader \u2014 the heir apparent to longtime leader Nancy Pelosi. If he wins the Jan. 3 floor vote, he would become the House\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}