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Hakeem Jeffries Is Starting to Relish the Fight
In his his Brooklyn Brawler era.
Photographer: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images North AmericaA year ago, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sounded like this:
“I’m trying to figure out what leverage we actually have,” he said at a February 2025 press briefing. “What leverage do we have? Republicans have repeatedly lectured America — they control the House, the Senate and the presidency. It’s their government.”