House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said he will attend President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is cracking down on plans among his members to try to disrupt or draw attention away from President Trump's speech to Congress on Tuesday evening. Why it matters: Many Democrats are facing a torrent of pressure from their grassroots base to stage more overt acts of resistance,

The Brooklyn Democrat said Trump’s speech was all bluster and failed to include concrete proposals to improve the stuttering economy.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is defending the conduct of the “majority” of his fellow Democrats during President Trump’s defiant speech before Congress Tuesday night. But he

"We are in an emergency, and I think it's all hands on deck," said Democratic House minority leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.

First-term Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan got the unenviable duty of giving the official Democratic Party response, and delivered a workmanlike, solid speech that, as my colleague Tom Nichols wrote, nonetheless “failed to capture the hallucinatory nature of our national politics” and thus felt a little irrelevant.

Several Democratic members of Congress showed off T-shirts emblazoned with messages as they walked out during Donald Trump’s speech.

Shortly after the House began their 2025 legislative session, Minority Leader Hakeem ... City & State reviewed social media and reached out to the offices of each member of the New York Democratic caucus to see if they followed Jeffries’ urging and ...

The former speaker tore apart a copy of Trump’s 2020 address to Congress. This time, she says Democrats need to coalesce on one, short message.

On Wednesday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY ... concluded he had sexually harassed thirteen state employees. Both Torres and Jeffries called on Cuomo to resign amid the scandal.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has noted that ... have announced that they will skip the event. "The State of the Union is that the President is spitting in the face of the law ...