House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) chastised “extreme MAGA Republicans,” called President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address “eloquent” and praised former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as “the greatest speaker of all time in the United States of America” during his weekly press conference on Feb. 9.
It was Jeffries’ first press conference since Biden’s State of the Union speech on Feb. 7, and the House Minority Leader echoed the president’s messaging.
“Democrats have been getting big things done on the issues of importance to everyday Americans, creating more than 12 million jobs and President Biden’s first two years in office, reducing the deficit by $1.7 trillion, lowering costs supercharging the economy when it was on the brink of a recession and moving in the right direction,” Jeffries said….}