House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries decried the actions of House Republicans surrounding the ousting of Rep. Kevin McCarthy with three P's: petty, partisan and petulant.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of N.Y., calls on a reporter during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 14, 2023. **FILE**In an opinion piece for The Washington Post, Mr. Jeffries, New York Democrat, said the decision to remove former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, and Rep. Steny Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, from their courtesy Capitol offices was “petty, partisan and petulant.”, Mrs.
Mr. Jeffries wrote that Democrats have tried to “show our colleagues in the Republican majority a way out of the dysfunction and rancor they have allowed to engulf the House,” but after the ousting of the former speaker, “things further deteriorated from there.” What’s needed, the minority leader wrote, is for Republicans to look for a different path and confront the “extremism that has spread unchecked,” so that the two parties can work together.
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