Jeffries' letter launching his bid for House speaker
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'crashing end'
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) launched his campaign for speaker on Wednesday in a combative letter to fellow Democrats elected to the 120th Congress. Widely expected to claim the gavel after his party’s midterm landslide, he would become the first African American to hold the post.

Jeffries pledges to use the first 100 days to reverse Medicaid cuts, restore SNAP funding, scrap President Trump’s tariffs and end the war with Iran. He vows to “clean up the mess at the Supreme Court,” ban congressional stock trading and declares the “era of MAGA extremism is coming to a crashing end."

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