General Discussion

...what he's saying is tentative on what comes out of those discussions.

He's being prudent here not getting out ahead of his caucus or negotiating their view or his own in the public until they've had the opportunity to meet and hopefully present a unified front.

Right now, the effort is to keep the pressure on the Senate to do what Jeffries achieved in the House with a unanimous Dem vote and 17 republican crossovers on ACA.

You need to understand that there are not only several DHS funding proposals from Democrats floating around, there's not even a bill in the floor to be debated and voted on.

Maybe try and understand that this isn't the end result of discussions with over 200 of his Dem House members, and that the press isn't entitled to his views before he does his job in the caucus to reconcile whatever differences emerge, if any.

He may well be in complete agreement with AOC, for instance, but those discussions don't appear to be complete. They're caucusing this week, in addition to the Whip meeting in which they organize their votes, and schedule actions in their respective committees.

This isn't some zero sum enterprise where Jeffries dictates something or the other to the several hundred Dem legislators in the House. Whatever you perceive, he is a smart political leader seeking a unified message from his membership.

I mean, I'm at a loss why Democrats looking on think he needs to convince them of something or the other. He's in the middle of a legislative process and that takes deftness, not grandstanding, to organize a unified party behind anything.


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Btw, reminding republicans of their future legal liability when and if Democrats get back in power isn't intended to be his final response.

As he said, Democrats will be meeting and will reveal their path forward when they're done. That means that we don't yet know what his messaging, or the party's, more importantly, will be.

I get that the interim creates space for all of this judgment, but we really don't know where either leader is going to come down on this, but you can see Jeffries laying into the administration about the way they've deployed ICE so far.

I'd think that would be a better indicator of how he's feels or what he's like to see than the rhetoric about republicans not being able to outrun justice or hide behind Trump indefinitely.