Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries launched an hours-long filibuster today, in an unsuccessful try to dam the passage of the Huge Lovely Invoice.
The liberal media talked about all of it day. They simply couldn’t get sufficient of Jeffries’ ‘historic’ speech.
Right here’s how CBS News framed the story:
Hakeem Jeffries units file for longest Home speech earlier than vote on Trump’s “massive, stunning invoice”
There’s no filibuster within the Home, however Democratic chief Hakeem Jeffries primarily performed one anyway because the Home debated President Trump’s “massive, stunning invoice” earlier than it handed on Thursday.
Jeffries held the Home flooring for greater than eight hours, taking his “candy time” with a marathon flooring speech that delayed passage of Republicans’ large tax and spending cuts laws and gave his minority get together a prolonged highlight to excoriate what he referred to as an “immoral” invoice.
As Democratic chief, Jeffries can communicate for so long as he needs throughout debate on laws — therefore its nickname on Capitol Hill, the “magic minute,” that lasts so long as leaders are talking.
He started the speech at 4:53 a.m. ET and completed at 1:37 p.m. ET, 8 hours, 44 minutes later, breaking the file set by then-Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California in 2021, when he was the GOP chief. McCarthy spoke for 8 hours, 32 minutes when he angrily criticized Democrats’ “Construct Again Higher” laws, breaking a file set by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, when she spoke about immigration for 8 hours, 7 minutes in 2018.
So courageous. So historic. One little drawback.
Again in 2021, throughout an look on MSNBC with Al Sharpton, Jeffries referred to as the filibuster a racist artifact of the Jim Crow period, and complained that the filibuster was permitting individuals to face in the best way of progress. Watch:
Hey Hakeem, keep in mind this?
2021. Hakeem Jeffries explains that the filibuster is racist and is standing in the best way of progress. pic.twitter.com/glqWAb67Wr
— MAZE (@mazemoore) July 3, 2025
OOPS.
It’s simply one other reminder that for Democrats, their view of every little thing is framed by whether or not it helps their get together or not. On the finish of the day, that’s actually all they care about.
